Definitionn. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
Last update: September 23, 2015
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He was a strenuous advocate of the abolition of the House of Lords (see 20.845, 846); at the time of the Parnell Commission he had much to do with the unmasking of Pigott; and he was a member of the inquiry into the Jameson Raid, his hostility to Mr. Chamberlain being as pronounced as against Lord Rosebery when the latter became leader of the Liberal party. [Please select]
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Preferably some innocent victim of unjust suspicion; somebody who could best clear himself by unmasking the real villain. [Please select]
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I can only hope, at no distant day, to have the means of unmasking a man who--why, I know not--has made himself my enemy. [Please select]
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She bent toward him now, her lips open in a slow smile, all her subtle and dangerous beauty unmasking its batteries. [Please select]
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All about him girls and men were unmasking amid a shower of laughing raillery. [Please select]
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"This scene is called ’The Unmasking of the Villain,’" he observed. [Please select]
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Never knew any man like him for unravelling and unmasking the cleverest disguises. [Please select]
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He gave us some hints about disguises and their unmasking that I shall not forget. [Please select]
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At length, yielding rather to his unusual impatience than taking counsel from his knowledge, he determined to bring matters to an issue, by unmasking his force, and proceeding cautiously, but steadily, up the stream. [Please select]
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This shameful letter, which promised Barine clemency in return for her favour without unmasking him in his character of judge, explained to Charmian the agitation in which she found her friend's daughter. [Please select]
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