fakery
Americannoun
plural
fakeriesEtymology
Origin of fakery
Example Sentences
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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
Celebrity gossip keeps a close eye on body fakery.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
“I was not looking to become the poster child of internet fakery, and I’m certainly not the first,” Curtis told The Times by phone Tuesday morning.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
In a subsequent analysis of almost 600 papers he had considered, he found that 19% of them had images with hallmarks of fakery, he reported in a preprint posted to bioRxiv in March.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 28, 2024
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
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