Synonyms for fakery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fey-kuh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪ kə ri |
Top 10 synonyms for fakery Other synonyms for the word fakery
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- burlesque
- canard
- cant
- caricature
- cheat
- claim
- counterfeit
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- disguise
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- dream
- dumb act
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- excuse
- fable
- fabrication
- facade
- fairy tale
- fake
- fakery
- faking
- fallaciousness
- false front
- falseness
- falsification
- fantasy
- feigning
- feint
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- flimflam
- gag
- guise
- half truth
- hogwash
- hypocriticalness
- imagination
- imitation
- impostor
- imposture
- insincerity
- invention
- jive
- line
- make-believe
- mask
- masquerade
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- mock
- mockery
- ostentation
- pageant
- perjury
- pharisaism
- phoniness
- playacting
- posing
- posturing
- pretend
- pretense
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- pretext
- prevarication
- pseudo
- put-on
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sell
- semblance
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- smoke
- snow job
- spoof
- stall
- story
- stunt
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall tale
- travesty
- trickery
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- veil
- veneer
- whitewash
- whopper
- wile
- yarn
Définition of fakery
- As in make-believe : noun unreality
- As in pretense : noun falsehood, affected show; cover
- As in sham : noun hoax, trick
- As in falsehood : noun lie
- Three years of this fakery is enough to try the soul of a saint.
- Extract from : « Oogie Finds Love » by Berkeley Livingston
- They resort to fakery: one howls, and the other wrinkles his face in great anger.
- Extract from : « The Human Side of Animals » by Royal Dixon
- And there was no fakery about the warmth from the thing over his chest.
- Extract from : « The Sky Is Falling » by Lester del Rey
- It is a terrible thing to have spent years perfecting the art of fakery, and then to realize you needn't have faked at all.
- Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
- As it was, Jenny Harper was first a symbol of the fakery he intended to destroy, and after that a woman.
- Extract from : « Love Story » by Irving E. Cox, Jr.
Antonyms for fakery
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