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Faker   Listen
noun
faker  n.  
1.
One who fakes something; as
(a)
A thief.
(b)
A peddler of petty things.
(c)
A workman who dresses things up. (Slang)
2.
A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
Synonyms: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, fraud, sham, pseudo, pseud, role player.





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"Faker" Quotes from Famous Books



... wrong, Rockstone," he exclaimed impulsively. "This man is no faker, nor am I so easily imposed upon as you seem to think. I tell you that we are called upon to deal with a new agency that can neither be disputed nor sneered away, and unless we can contrive some way to oppose it, the United ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney
... spent in traducing the national beverage. The burden of the cereal-faker's song was that coffee was the cause of all the ills that flesh is heir to, and that by stopping its use for ten days and substituting his panacea, these ills ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... faker. Little is known of his childhood except that he was fond of dogs and played with the cat. Later he made animals his life's study. A. discovered the zoological principal that a turtle can run faster than a rabbit, and ...
— Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date - Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be • Anonymous
... couldn't reply, and he drank up his beer and went out with a wave of the hand. Miss Bevan asked me if I knew him. 'Sure,' I said, 'but he was old and grey three days ago.' It was my first experience of a sea-faker. He'd been up to Cardiff, had a Turkish bath, hair-cut and shave, and the barber had dyed his hair and moustache. Then he'd gone round to the offices and eventually got a job. Of course, the first green sea that went over him would add twenty years to his age, ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... complicated that they themselves neither understand nor wish to understand.... Why is it that in all the great authors I detect an air of condescension, marking their contempt for those who make and keep them what they are? With what fine contempt the 'rube' is surveyed by the faker who has plucked him! Must I put these classic souls of art in the same category? The art for art's sake people—these make me sick. It is at best an argumentative confusion springing from the fact that in the perfect ...
— An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood
... as showing the patent medicine faker's touching confidence in the power of advertising. Otherwise it doesn't, interest me. Get some one else to find ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... say just what there was about Bingstetter that got me leery; but somehow he reminds me of a street faker or a museum lecturer. And it does seem sort of fishy that, just by gazin' at a bunch of flowers, he could dope out all this wild tale about five desp'rate men. Still, there was no gettin' away from the fact that he had hit it right ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford


Words linked to "Faker" :   impostor, fake, deceiver, sham, pseudo, slicker, pretender, beguiler, shammer, cheat, trickster, pseud


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