🍲 Prepared with heat 🕵️ Faked or false

cooked

4 8.8

Numbers changed on purpose to hide the real amount

adjective
/kʊkt/

Informal

: manipulado

After the audit, it was clear that the numbers had been cooked to make profits appear higher.

Examples

Investors soon realized that the company had cooked the data to hide its losses.
It's one of the ways that the IRS can actually find cooked books is by actually testing the randomness of the last two digits of list of sums.
The accountant was fired for presenting cooked financial reports to the shareholders.

Synonyms

forged

vscooked

NSFW

26 5.1

Made to look real to trick people

alters existing numbers rather than copying originals

fabricated

vscooked

19 6.0

Made up and not true, often to trick people

alters existing numbers to give a misleading impression

trumped-up

vscooked

11 7.9

Fake charges made to blame someone unfairly

distorts numerical records to mislead not to accuse people

Antonyms

honest

∞ 1.0

Truthful and fair, not cheating or lying

accurate

644 3.0

Exactly correct in every detail

Idioms

cooked to perfection

2 3.0

Food that is prepared exactly right has the best taste and texture

someone's goose is cooked

Archaic

9.9

In serious trouble and likely to be punished or ruined

Compounds

hard-cooked egg

1 1.0

An egg boiled until the white and yolk are solid

ready-cooked

1 2.2

Made earlier so you can eat it without more work in the kitchen

cooked chestnut

1 1.5

A chestnut heated until soft and ready to eat

How Manipulated

fabricated

19 6.0

forged

NSFW

26 5.1

cooked

Informal

4 8.8

adjusted

57 3.0

Surface Forms

cooked positive

Morphology

cooked = cook (semi-transparent) = cook + ed

Derived via the idiomatic sense 'to cook the books' (to falsify); the figurative meaning 'falsified' is not directly predictable from the literal verb for many learners.

Etymology

The informal use of cooked for false figures comes from the phrase cook the books, where 'cook' means to 'prepare' but in a dishonest way. So if numbers are cooked, they have been mixed or changed to hide the real truth.