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fakery

[ fey-kuh-ree ]

noun

, plural fak·er·ies.
  1. the practice or result of faking. fake.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fakery1

First recorded in 1885–90; fake 1 + -ery

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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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