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"text": "\"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand.\"",
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "podvodník"
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"code": "cs",
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"code": "nl",
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],
"word": "bedriegster"
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"code": "eo",
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{
"code": "fo",
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],
"word": "kritlari"
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{
"code": "fo",
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"word": "svikari"
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{
"code": "fo",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "huijari"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "toiseksi tekeytyjä"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
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],
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{
"code": "fr",
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],
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"code": "fr",
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],
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"code": "gl",
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],
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "tvitmarkvia",
"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "თვითმარქვია"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
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],
"word": "Hochstapler"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
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],
"word": "Betrüger"
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{
"code": "he",
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"lang_code": "he",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
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],
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "szélhámos"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "csaló"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
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],
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"code": "km",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "អ្នកក្លែងបន្លំ"
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "someone who uses an assumed identity",
"word": "사기꾼"
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"code": "la",
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],
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"code": "lv",
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],
"word": "viltvārdis"
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"code": "lt",
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],
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"code": "pl",
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