fakery
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈfeɪkəri/
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falsedad
- Fakery abounds on the Internet, and eternal vigilance is necessary to avoid being taken in.
- artifice and fakery
- the art of fakery
And so that's, it's a form of camouflage fakery.
- And so that's, it's a form of camouflage fakery.
- And this one immediately revealed some fakery.
- We conflated right wing bias with fakery.
Examples
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The artist was accused of fakery after it was revealed that he had been painting over famous artworks.
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The fakery does not need to be of a good standard to be believed either.
Blog text (17) -
Real conservatives see through the fakery in a second.
Blog text (29) -
If this were done for propaganda purposes, it would be impossible for the fakery to be kept quiet once the find was made public.
Fiction book (2001) -
What betrays the fakery is how human they look.
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Despite minute inspections of the wheel, no hint of fakery was ever discovered.
Blog text (12) -
The subtleties and tricks of fakery never quite become apparent until one gets burned by buying one or several doctored pieces.
Academic text (2003) -
Competing with others in demonstrations of reverence and piety just invites fakery and fraud.
Blog text (17) -
And only the dressman knows for sure where the shirt was obtained or the costume sewn that enacts this piece of fakery.
Academic text (2006) -
Many forms of digital fakery can easily deceive viewers on social media.
Synonyms
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2.7
A false statement told to trick someone
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4.1
A trick that makes people believe something false
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7.4
A false show that hides what is really happening
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6.1
A false claim or action to hide the truth
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7.7
A clever trick to deceive someone
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6.5
A false story made to trick people
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5.6
An illegal act of making false documents or objects to trick people
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4.9
To use dishonest ways to cheat people
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5.8
A false show of feeling or action meant to trick people
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9.5
A trick or excuse to hide the real reason
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6.8
A false appearance that hides someone's true feelings or plans
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4.3
A trick that makes something look like real magic
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7.7
To make a document or record false on purpose by changing its information
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9.9
Hiding your true feelings or intentions by pretending
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7.9
Pretending to be someone else online to trick people
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9.9
A trick done to cheat or fool people
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9.5
To pretend to be someone else to trick people
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4.1
A way of acting to make others believe something that is not true
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7.4
Pretending to have an illness or feeling to trick others
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7.2
A quality that makes something seem true when it is false
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9.4
The appearance of being true when it is false
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9.6
Pretending to be someone else or making up a false reason to get private information
The state of being not real or true
The state of being fake and trying to trick people
To make false information, for example in documents or results, to trick people
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fakery comes from fake plus the ending -ery, like in trickery. That ending turns a verb into a noun for an 'action' or result, so fakery means the 'act of faking' or a case of 'deception'.