faker
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Origin of faker
Example Sentences
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“Bob is a faker, and Bob knows he’s a faker,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024
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 will always be a faker to me, even without his changing his name.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016
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
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