Synonyms of fakery

fakery

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deception
• deceit
• fraud
• deceptiveness
• cheating
• deceitfulness
• cunning
• lying
• duplicity
• dishonesty
• crookery
• double-dealing
• dissimulation
• crookedness
• dissembling
• secrecy
• cozenage
• guile
• artifice
• craftiness
• dupery
• fraudulence
• trickery
• craft
• cunningness
• subterfuge
• wiliness
• prevarication
• chicanery
• hypocrisy
• mendacity
• foxiness
• insincerity
• skulduggery
• artfulness
• guilefulness
• equivocation
• jugglery
• swindling
• hanky-panky
• legerdemain
• untruth
• sanctimoniousness
• obliquity
• falsehood
• fib
• deviousness
• shrewdness
• underhandedness
• chicane
• mountebankery
• falsity
• furtiveness
• unscrupulousness
• shadiness
• wile
• sneakiness
• caginess
• covertness
• slyness
• smoothness
• two-facedness
• slipperiness
• stealthiness
• shiftiness
• slickness
• treacherousness
• oiliness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sincerity
• good faith
• artlessness
• ingenuousness
• openness
• forthrightness
• candor
• frankness
• directness
• honesty
• guilelessness
• plainness
• reliability
• probity
• solidity
• trustworthiness
• goodness
• candidness
• integrity
• dependability
• truthfulness
• decency
• righteousness
• plainspokenness
• incorruptibility
• uprightness
• reliableness
• trustability
• virtuousness
• trustiness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fakery

That’s the deficiency side of integrity—where authenticity gives way to fakery, consistency erodes into unpredictability, and transparency slips into manipulation…But swing too far in the other direction, and the skyscraper becomes overly rigid—too stiff to sway with the wind. — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

The green-screen effects are knowing in their outright fakery; the nerdiness of the whole enterprise is lampshaded with a whole setpiece in a comic-book store. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 June 2026

In that vacuum, fakery thrives. — 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

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