pretender
Nouns
- (n) a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)
- (n) a person who makes deceitful pretenses faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, fake, fraud, sham, shammer,
- (n) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony,