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adjectiveartificial or imitation; fake: a brooch with faux pearls. Origin of faux1670–80; <French; Old French fals<Latin falsusfalse Words nearby fauxFaustus, faut, faute de mieux, fauteuil, Fauve, faux, fauxbourdon, faux-naïf, faux pas, fava bean, fave Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fauxFrom righteous fury to faux indignation, everything we got mad about in 2014—and how outrage has taken over our lives. The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Dec 15-21, 2014|William Boot|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Later that same year, she Instagrammed a photo of herself wearing a faux hijab before half-apologizing for it on Twitter. Will White Feminists Finally Dump Lena Dunham?|Samantha Allen|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST A few vampire acrobatics in faux protest later, and the two were stripping off their shirts and wrestling in bed. Inside True Blood’s Steamy Gay Sex Scene|Kevin Fallon|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST Faux lashes from the Kardashian Beauty line, which ring in at $6.49. Model Suki Waterhouse Lands Major Movie Role; Giambattista Valli Launches Second Ready-to-Wear Line|The Fashion Beast Team|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What happens when faux psychic detective Shawn Spencer is busted for having lied to the Santa Barbara Police for eight years? I Watched ‘Psych’ For 8 Years and All I Got Was This Lackluster Finale|Chancellor Agard|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST "You cannot deny but that she has frequently made a faux pas, as it were," said Jess, smiling. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross|Gertrude W. Morrison The Man of the World goes to him to ask what book so absorbs him, friendly, faux bonhomme. The Harlequinade|Dion Clayton Calthrop The truth is, I executed rather a faux pas over there at Asquith. The Celebrity, Complete|Winston Churchill In short, if ever a faux bonhomme existed, Sir John Bell was the man. Doctor Therne|H. Rider Haggard "The Jack-a-dimunts," promptly responded Simon, who gave up all as lost after this faux pas. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)|Various
Words related to fauxfake, imitative, imitation, ersatz, false, unreal, counterfeit, fabricated, substitute, factitious, spurious, plastic, synthetic, unnatural, affected, contrived, feigned, insincere |