Thesaurus / faking
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synonyms for faking
- camouflage
- cloak
- guise
- trickery
- veil
- beard
- blind
- charade
- color
- coloring
- concealment
- costume
- counterfeit
- cover-up
- dissimulation
- dress
- facade
- face
- front
- illusion
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- pageant
- pretense
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pseudonym
- put on
- screen
- semblance
- veneer
- false front
- fig leaf
- getup
- pen name
- red herring
- smokescreen
- falsification
- carbon
- cheat
- copy
- fabrication
- fake
- fraudulence
- imitation
- imposition
- imposture
- phony
- pseudo
- sham
- twin
- bogus
- carbon copy
- coining
- imitating
- lookalike
- workalike
- charade
- cloak
- pretext
- semblance
- veneer
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- 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
- dumb act
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How to use faking in a sentence
But there undoubtedly was, with rare exceptions, a suspicion of what is called in slang "faking" about his work.
THE ENGLISH NOVELGEORGE SAINTSBURYWhich is the harder of belief, the faking of a photograph or the objective existence of winged beings eighteen inches high?
THE COMING OF THE FAIRIESARTHUR CONAN DOYLESo, what more natural than that mediums should resort to faking?
THE PROFITS OF RELIGION, FIFTH EDITIONUPTON SINCLAIRFive minutes for faking breath,” he cried, “and then on again for that white patch where the water is foaming.
FIX BAY'NETSGEORGE MANVILLE FENN"I believe that fellow is faking," said the sergeant to Nick, as Harrigan left the room.
THE CRIME OF THE FRENCH CAF AND OTHER STORIESNICHOLAS CARTERThey fail to realise that a schoolroom film must be absolutely natural, that there must be no trickery or faking.
PRACTICAL CINEMATOGRAPHY AND ITS APPLICATIONSFREDERICK ARTHUR AMBROSE TALBOTNo more do I. I've seen so much of faking—in women as well as in men—that it's hard for me to believe anyone is genuine.
THE GRAIN OF DUSTDAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPSHe must try to weather the storm until he has a chance of faking the voters' lists so as to improve his own chances.
IRELAND AS IT ISROBERT JOHN BUCKLEY (AKA R.J.B.)I knew you'd know whether good people are faking, and which life is best.
KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS, V. 2 OF 2JOHN WILSON TOWNSENDAs for the Leader, which was independent in politics, that paper did not worry over the accusations of "faking" made against it.
LARRY DEXTER'S GREAT SEARCHHOWARD R. GARISWORDS RELATED TO FAKING
- beard
- blind
- camouflage
- charade
- cloak
- color
- coloring
- concealment
- costume
- counterfeit
- cover-up
- dissimulation
- dress
- facade
- face
- faking
- false front
- fig leaf
- front
- getup
- guise
- illusion
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- pageant
- pen name
- pretense
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pseudonym
- put on
- red herring
- screen
- semblance
- smokescreen
- trickery
- veil
- veneer
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- charade
- claim
- cloak
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dumb act
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- faking
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- pretext
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- semblance
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- veneer
- wile
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.