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[ fey-kuh-ree ] / ˈfeɪ kə ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR fakery ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural fak·er·ies.the practice or result of faking. Origin of fakeryFirst recorded in 1885–90; fake1 + -ery Words nearby fakeryfajitas, fake, fake book, fake news, faker, fakery, fakir, fa-la, falafel, Falange, Falangist Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fakeryAt various points in her career, she was busted for fakery and for plagiarism. Dead Cool: Madame Blavatsky|Simon Doonan|January 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST Three years of this fakery is enough to try the soul of a saint. Oogie Finds Love|Berkeley Livingston And there was no fakery about the warmth from the thing over his chest. The Sky Is Falling|Lester del Rey They resort to fakery: one howls, and the other wrinkles his face in great anger. The Human Side of Animals|Royal Dixon
As it was, Jenny Harper was first a symbol of the fakery he intended to destroy, and after that a woman. Love Story|Irving E. Cox, Jr. It is a terrible thing to have spent years perfecting the art of fakery, and then to realize you needn't have faked at all. Sense from Thought Divide|Mark Irvin Clifton
Words related to fakerycharade, pretext, semblance, cloak, veneer, fraud, farce, mockery, hypocrisy, whitewash, forgery, travesty, prevarication, tall tale, deception, falsity, misstatement, cover-up, distortion, perjury |