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fakery

American  
[fay-kuh-ree] / ˈfeɪ kə ri /

noun

  • fakeries
    plural
  1. the practice or result of faking.


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Etymology

Origin of fakery

First recorded in 1885–90; fake 1 + -ery

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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

The world of misinformation is awash with fakery and doubt.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 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

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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