Meanings
adjectiveimpostrous (comparative more impostrous, superlative most impostrous)
comparative more impostrous · superlative most impostrous
- archaicCharacterized by imposture; deceitful.
1846-56, George Grote, A History of Greece Rhetoric (argues Plato in the dialogue called Gorgias) is no art whatever, but a mere unscientific knack, enslaved to the dominant prejudices, and nothing better than an impostrous parody on the true political art.
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