What do you call a person who pretends 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 do you call someone who is pretending 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 someone who pretends to be someone they're not?

imposter Add to list Share. An imposter is a person who pretends to be someone else. … An imposter usually seeks some kind of financial gain when he or she assumes another person's identity, but there can be other motivations, like simply the thrill of doing it.
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What do you call someone who betrays a friend?

Definitions of traitor. a person who says one thing and does another. synonyms: betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer. types: Judas. someone who betrays under the guise of friendship.
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What is it called when you act like someone else?

Impersonating, acting, imitating, mimicking, posing. These are words that could be used to mean pretending to be someone else. Impersonators act like someone else, often with the intent to deceive or amuse.
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What do you call an imposter?

Fake. Definition - impostor, charlatan.
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When someone thinks they are better than they are?

conceited. someone who is conceited behaves in a way that shows they think they are very intelligent, skillful, or attractive. This word shows that you do not like people like this.
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What do you call a two faced person?

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 turns on you?

a backstabber: [one who engages in] betrayal (as by a verbal attack against one not present) especially by a false friend (m-w.com def. 1) a double-crosser: to cheat or deceive (someone) especially by doing something that is different from what you said you would do (m-w.com def.
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What is Perfidiousness?

perfidious • \per-FID-ee-us\ • adjective. : of, relating to, or characterized by faithlessness or disloyalty : treacherous.
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What is a disingenuous person?

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 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 being fake?

charlatan, quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, humbug, impostor, pretender, masquerader, hoodwinker, hoaxer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, dissembler, trickster, confidence trickster, fraudster. informal phoney, con man, con artist. dated confidence man.
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What does Eccedentesiast mean?

A person who fakes a smile.
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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 is a sadist?

Definition of sadist

: one characterized by sadism : a person who takes pleasure in inflicting pain, punishment, or humiliation on others a sexual sadist He's a sadist and, where Toby is concerned, an unusually relentless one: he's in the boy's face constantly, prodding, belittling, taunting.—
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Who is a masochist?

Definition of masochist

1 : a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism But Ksenia is a masochist who cannot experience sexual pleasure without first experiencing extreme pain.—
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What is a word that means double sided?

mutual, reciprocal, bilateral, collective, respective, associated, communal, conjoint, conjunct, connected, convertible, correlative, dependent, give-and-take, interactive, interchangeable, interchanged, interdependent, joint, partaken.
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What does duplicitous behavior mean?

Definitions of duplicitous. adjective. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another. synonyms: Janus-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, two-faced dishonest, dishonorable.
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What's a word for two sided?

2-sided, two-tiered, two-pronged, bilateral, two-track, two-tier, two-part, two-fold, two-tailed, twofold, bi-lateral, dual, twin-track, two-stage, double.
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What do you call someone who thinks their way is the only way?

Self Righteous – someone who believes they are completely correct or morally superior. Stubborn – someone who will not change their opinion. Assertive – someone who has a forceful or confident personality. Dictatorial – someone who presents themselves in an autocratic manner.
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What do you call someone who thinks they deserve everything?

A sense of entitlement is a personality characteristic based on the belief that someone deserves special treatment or recognition for something they didn't earn. In other words, people with this mindset believe that the world owes them without ever giving anything in return.
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What do you call a person who only sees things their way?

Alison Mcclay. This is referred to as "egocentrism" in the technical sense. Egocentrism is a cognitive bias that refers to the inherent limitation on our vision imposed by the fact that we can only observe the world from our perspective.
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What is a crewmate?

noun. a fellow member of a crew, especially on an aircraft, ship, or spacecraft.
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