faker
Americannoun
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a person who fakes.
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a petty swindler.
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a peddler or street vendor of articles of dubious value.
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Origin of faker
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He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
“To realize you inspired a faker is just awful,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
Pearson saw in McCarthy a witch hunter who couldn’t snare a witch — precisely the sort of faker he’d spent his career exposing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
His wife, Jessica Realin, said the rumor among police officers was that her husband was a faker trying to game the system.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2018
He had always been scornful of root-doctors and all their kind, but now she saw a faker from over around Altamonte Springs, hanging around the place almost daily.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
Instead, it emboldened a new generation of fakers who saw the easy money he made off eager buyers and realized that others involved in the fraud weren’t held accountable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
She said the point is to protect what they create, such as merchandise and a detailed log of what the eagles are up to, from fakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
Mr. Musk trashed Mr. Zuckerberg’s Instagram as a dwelling for fakers and phonies in a Wednesday evening post to Twitter.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Those approved by Meta will get a verified badge, which the tech firm says will give them more protection from impersonation, in part because it will monitor their accounts to check for fakers.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
A whole lot of them fake for the cameras, but even the fakers have more money than me.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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