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Synonyms for faked

Grammar : Verb
Spell : feyk
Phonetic Transcription : feɪk

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Définition of faked

Origin :
  • attested in London criminal slang as adjective (1775), verb (1812), and noun (1851, of persons 1888), but probably older. A likely source is feague "to spruce up by artificial means," from German fegen "polish, sweep," also "to clear out, plunder" in colloquial use. "Much of our early thieves' slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years' War" [Weekley]. Or it may be from Latin facere "to do." Related: Faked; fakes; faking.
  • verb pretend
Example sentences :
  • Give me some evidence that they were faked, and I'll be happy to reinspect your views.
  • Extract from : « The Cuckoo Clock » by Wesley Barefoot
  • Suppose you assume one per cent of them are faked, that would be seventy.
  • Extract from : « The Pit Prop Syndicate » by Freeman Wills Crofts
  • What's to prevent them running the faked props to the firm who plants the brandy?
  • Extract from : « The Pit Prop Syndicate » by Freeman Wills Crofts
  • Its balance sheets are faked, its reserves are non-existent.
  • Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
  • Besides, he can't have faked the terms, and that's the only document that counts.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Paw » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • Some said that she faked her ancestors when she come in too.
  • Extract from : « The Man Next Door » by Emerson Hough
  • Her lips quivered for a second; then, with a faked jauntiness, she nodded.
  • Extract from : « Tatterdemalion » by John Galsworthy
  • You'll find the Shamo all dotted out on the maps; but it's faked dope.
  • Extract from : « The Sleuth of St. James's Square » by Melville Davisson Post
  • Nice chap too—was trying to give me something for a fever I'd faked.
  • Extract from : « The Night of the Long Knives » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
  • Have you, sir, a farm and four real boys of your own, or are they faked?
  • Extract from : « The Face of the Fields » by Dallas Lore Sharp

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