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Fake   /feɪk/   Listen
Fake

adjective
1.
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance.  Synonyms: bastard, bogus, phoney, phony.
2.
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article.  Synonyms: false, faux, imitation, simulated.  "Faux pearls" , "False teeth" , "Decorated with imitation palm leaves" , "A purse of simulated alligator hide"
noun
1.
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be.  Synonyms: postiche, sham.
2.
A person who makes deceitful pretenses.  Synonyms: faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer.
3.
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player.  Synonym: juke.
verb
1.
Make a copy of with the intent to deceive.  Synonyms: counterfeit, forge.  "They counterfeited dollar bills" , "She forged a Green Card"
2.
Tamper, with the purpose of deception.  Synonyms: cook, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle.  "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"
3.
Speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths.  Synonyms: bull, bullshit, talk through one's hat.



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"Fake" Quotes from Famous Books



... can't understand," agreed Little. "He knows so much that he must know about this fake. If he does, what could be his object in letting ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... about a middlin' little bit, you bet I 'ave, And I ain't what Barber BIDDLECOMBE would call "a heasy shave"; But these Sanitary codgers give me beans, and no mistake. I am fly to most all capers, but don't tumble to their fake. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Jan. 9, 1892 • Various
... did not deride my absence of definiteness, he only deplored it. But I really got more out of the subsequent talk. We adjourned to a sort of portico, a pretty place looking on to a formal garden: it was really very charmingly done—a clever fake of an, old garden, but with nothing really beautiful about it. It looked as if no one had ever lived in it, though the illusion of age was skilfully contrived—old paving-stones, old bricks, old lead vases, but all looking as if ...
— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson
... little blonde with him, but when she saw his fake money, I guess she gave him the slip, for he turned to the right and she went up the street ...
— A Royal Prisoner • Pierre Souvestre
... a fake, then that other fellow who tried to head us off must 'ave been a party to ...
— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield


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