What do you call a person who pretends to be nice?

phoney. adjective. informal someone who is phoney pretends to be friendly, clever, kind etc.
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What do you call a person who pretends?

Definitions of imposter. a person who makes deceitful pretenses. synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer. types: name dropper. someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends.
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What is it called when someone pretends to be someone they're not?

masquerade. noun. an act of pretending to be someone who you are not.
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What do you call someone who is pretending to be your friend?

frenemy noun - one who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy [Merriam-Webster]
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What is a two faced person called?

deceitful, insincere, double-dealing, hypocritical, back-stabbing, false, untrustworthy, duplicitous, Janus-faced, deceiving, dissembling, dishonest. disloyal, treacherous, perfidious, faithless. lying, untruthful, mendacious.
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What do you call a person who imitates others?

A mimic is someone who is good at imitating others. A gifted mimic might be able to imitate one president after another just by minimally changing facial expression and manner of speaking.
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What is a disingenuous person?

Someone who is disingenuous is slightly dishonest and insincere in what they say. [formal] It would be disingenuous to claim that this is great art. Synonyms: dishonest, cunning, sly, designing More Synonyms of disingenuous.
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What is a word for someone who thinks they are better than everyone?

Someone who is conceited thinks that they are the best.
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What is an imposer?

Noun. imposer (plural imposers) One who imposes.
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What is a poseur person?

Definition of poseur

: a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person.
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What do you call someone who is not what they seem?

Synonyms suggested include fickle, wayward, capricious, volatile, flighty, erratic, mutable, mercurial, and irregular.
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What do you call someone who acts tough but isn t?

a blusterer. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bluster. to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats. 1.
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What is sullenly mean?

1a : gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed a sullen crowd. b : suggesting a sullen state : lowering a sullen countenance. 2 : dull or somber in sound or color. 3 : dismal, gloomy a sullen morning.
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What is the synonym of imposter?

Fakes, fraudsters, charlatans and more.
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What is condescending attitude?

Definition of condescending

: showing or characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others.
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What do you call a person that thinks they know everything?

One who is omniscient literally knows all.
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What do you call a person who needs to be the center of attention?

Someone with histrionic personality disorder (HPD) feels they need to be the center of attention in all situations. This may lead to overdramatic behaviors that others might perceive as odd and inappropriate.
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What does duplicitous behavior mean?

He's being duplicitous, or pretending to have feelings that his actions contradict. In duplicitous, you can see the word duplicity, which means "doubleness." Someone who is duplicitous is almost like two people, saying one thing but then doing something very different, even contradictory.
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What is an inauthentic person?

An inauthentic person is fake or insincere, and an inauthentic thing isn't what it's said to be. That gold Rolex watch you bought for five dollars? It's probably inauthentic. Anything that pretends to be something it's not is inauthentic, whether it's a "designer" handbag or a person who's assuming a false identity.
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What is the word for acting like you don't know?

disingenuous Add to list Share. Use the adjective disingenuous to describe behavior that's not totally honest or sincere. It's disingenuous when people pretend to know less about something than they really do.
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What is a Mimmick?

1 : to imitate closely : ape He mimicked her accent. 2 : to ridicule by imitation The comic mimicked the president's mannerisms. 3 : simulate vegetable dishes that mimic meat— Carolone Bates. 4 : to resemble by biological mimicry a butterfly that mimics a leaf.
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What does it mean when someone mimics your actions?

Mirroring is the behavior in which one person unconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another. Mirroring often occurs in social situations, particularly in the company of close friends or family.
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What is mimicry in psychology?

The social psychological studies providing evidence for the social side of imitation have mostly focused on human mimicry. In this field, mimicry is defined as unconscious or automatic imitation of gestures, behaviours, facial expressions, speech and movements (for an extensive review see Chartrand & Van Baaren 2009).
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What is accusingly?

adverb. /əˈkjuːzɪŋli/ /əˈkjuːzɪŋli/ ​in a way that shows that you think somebody has done something wrong.
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