faker

[ fey-ker ]

noun

Origin of faker

First recorded in 1840–50; fake¹ + -er¹

How could you tell the real, dangerous zombies apart from the harmless fakers?
The Case Against Cards Against Humanity: Is Max Temkin a Horrible Person? (Does It Matter?) | Arthur Chu | July 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
If only there were some massive government apparatus available to us to sift through the metadata and sleuth these fakers out.
PS 4 Beats Xbox One For Best New Video Game Console | Winston Ross | June 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Daily Beast runs down a list of eight fakers who tried staging an untimely demise.
Raymond Roth Disappearance: People Who Faked Their Own Deaths (Photos) | | August 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the end, ADHD fakers look like every other college applicant—only with higher scores and grades.
Faking ADHD Gets You Into Harvard | Heidi Mitchell | January 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Even with fakers, when it comes to ADHD, what starts in youth does extend into adulthood.
Faking ADHD Gets You Into Harvard | Heidi Mitchell | January 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

I must be mighty careful or I'll lose my point of view and become a wretched hanger-on at the skirts of these fakers.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig | David Graham Phillips
Last year it was the social evil; just now it concerns itself with what the reformers are pleased to call 'the occult fakers.'
Victor Ollnee's Discipline | Hamlin Garland
The poets and novelists and the historians and the rest of the nature fakers fail to tell all the facts, dear sister.
The Grain Of Dust | David Graham Phillips
For a while he buried himself in the native life of a loathsome colony of Fakers.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. Wooldridge
He was one of the strange, impudent race of fakers who prey upon the clever city.
The Job | Sinclair Lewis

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