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fakery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fakery has 1 sense
- fakery(n = noun.act) Array - the act of faking (or the product of faking); Array is a kind of deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
Derived forms verb fake1, verb fake2
THESAURUS
fakery
acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, cheating, color, coloring, copying, counterfeiting, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, emulation, facade, face, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, following, forgery, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, hit-off, humbug, humbuggery, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mirroring, onomatopoeia, ostentation, outward show, parody, plagiarism, plagiary, playacting, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, repetition, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, takeoff, varnish, window dressing
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