faker

Example Sentences

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He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

And it is all filmed like a Z-grade action film where the fight scenes are faker than wrestling.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022

Against this backdrop, it might seem encouraging that the highest-profile example of a faker failing to make it has ended with four guilty verdicts.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Q. Re: Pants on fire: Even if the faker gets a job, she may never know when the company may decide to check up on their employees.

From Slate • May 15, 2017

He had always been scornful of root-doctors and all their kind, but now she saw a faker from over around Altamonte Springs, hanging around the place almost daily.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston