fakery

Example Sentences

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A simple adjustment of the blocking would alleviate the fakery.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

There are light, fond echoes of François Truffaut’s frolicking ode to cinematic fakery “Day for Night” and Ingmar Bergman’s bumpy ride on memory road “Wild Strawberries.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

But the story drew accusations of fakery, publicity-seeking and even tabloid newspaper claims that aliens had been in contact with locals.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

Celebrity gossip keeps a close eye on body fakery.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

They were brittle and peeling—smaller than I remembered, too—and looking at them now, as an almost adult, it struck me how blatant the fakery was.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs