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fakery
noun as in falsehood
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noun as in make believe
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noun as in pretense
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- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in sham
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Example Sentences
At various points in her career, she was busted for fakery and for plagiarism.
The Swami was an obvious phony of the baldest fakery, yet he had something.
Three years of this fakery is enough to try the soul of a saint.
It is a terrible thing to have spent years perfecting the art of fakery, and then to realize you needn't have faked at all.
As it was, Jenny Harper was first a symbol of the fakery he intended to destroy, and after that a woman.
And there was no fakery about the warmth from the thing over his chest.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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