fakery
Americannoun
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fakeries
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I wrote back: “I am extremely put off by the fakery of this whole exercise, and I question the ethics of a professor’s allowing his name to be put on a ghostwritten piece.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A simple adjustment of the blocking would alleviate the fakery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
These fakeries were added to ‘correct’ film so it seemed more like we saw.”
From Forbes ● Jan. 11, 2013
It is by seeing the market clearly in its fakeries that he outwitted it to get so rich.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2010
In recent years he sold his own works for large sums, but the authorities still pursued him for past fakeries.
From Time Magazine Archive
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