Faux News
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- noun
- /foʊ nuːz/
- Slang
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noticias falsas
- I sure hope you don't think Faux News tells the truth.
Examples
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To me, this is alarmist rhetoric of the faux news variety.
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You need to turn off Faux news and its affiliates.
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For those who want to dispute all this, just keep watching your Faux News.
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You either forgot to take your medication today, or you watch too much Faux News.
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The man who watches hour after hour of TV is a Faux News viewer.
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It's amazingly easy to spot the people on these boards that get their information exclusively from Faux News and Rush.
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Isn't Faux News the top-rated cable network among the news and commentary networks?
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Many people criticize Faux News for spreading misleading information.
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After watching Faux News, he felt more confused about the facts than ever.
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Critics argue that Faux News often presents biased stories to its viewers.
Synonyms
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Information people spread on purpose to deceive others
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False or misleading news stories that try to trick people
False or incomplete information spread on purpose to make people believe something untrue
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound directly combines 'faux' (made to resemble another thing / fake) with 'news', so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer 'false or misleading news' (i.e., 'fake news'). While the phrase can also be a cultural/political pun on 'Fox News', that rhetorical layer does not prevent the basic compositional meaning from being immediately derivable.
Etymology
The name Faux News is a joke that replaces the real network 'Fox News' with the French word faux meaning 'false', creating the image of a news source that looks real but is fake. That's why Faux News is used to mean 'false or misleading news'.