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
In that vacuum, fakery thrives.
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Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 May 2026
Amid all the fakery and flimflam of the pre-regulated drug market, the Shaker brand was the best.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
Playing some clever game of head-fakery with his adversaries?
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
What would be the point of them doing obvious fakery?
—Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Texas politics, no stranger to dirty tricks, now heads into a hypercharged 2026 election season with few rules governing artificial intelligence, as cheap, realistic tools have made campaign fakery easier to create and harder to detect.
—Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
Well, in some ways a lot of Dylan’s fakery of his own bio has always been very amusing.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 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
Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 May 2026
Amid all the fakery and flimflam of the pre-regulated drug market, the Shaker brand was the best.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026
Playing some clever game of head-fakery with his adversaries?
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
What would be the point of them doing obvious fakery?
—Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Texas politics, no stranger to dirty tricks, now heads into a hypercharged 2026 election season with few rules governing artificial intelligence, as cheap, realistic tools have made campaign fakery easier to create and harder to detect.
—Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
Well, in some ways a lot of Dylan’s fakery of his own bio has always been very amusing.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fakery
Noun
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Widespread deception was rampant, with businesses spending far more on green marketing than on actual sustainability improvements.—
Suvrat Dhanorkar,
The Conversation,
18 May 2026
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That, along with the angle of his arm—his arm slot, in baseball terms—adds another layer of deception.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Unlike the recent Margo’s Got Money Troubles, a series intent on adding human texture to all our preconceptions about online adult performers, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed seems more interested in the dramatic potential of intimate deceit.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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But those movies, in different ways, were about trickery and deceit, about drawing the audience into a head game of perception.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
14 May 2026
Noun
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The arrest of a North Miami Beach condominium property manager in early April serves as a reminder for Florida condominium associations of the potential for fraud involving construction and renovation projects.—
Meily Perez,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Minnesota seems to be the fraud capital these days.—
Rob Crilly,
The Washington Examiner,
22 May 2026
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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
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Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.—
Sue Brightman,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Widespread cheating must be stopped.—
Ann Kirschner,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Since there have been classrooms, there’s been student cheating.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Antisocial personality includes a persistent pattern of traits such as callousness, lack of concern, deceitfulness, and irresponsibility, Ryan said.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
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Perfidy — from the French perfidie via the Latin perfidia — means deceitfulness, treachery or a breach of faith or promise.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Maybe the mere fact of having been born illustrious, with no apparent faults, with nothing to prove or to be ashamed of, had liberated John from the resentments the rest of us feel, and from the cunning and ambition such resentments fuel.—
Jeffrey Eugenides,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Brazil international combines technical craft with a decisive cunning.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Fakery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fakery. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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