Synonyms of faking

faking

verb

present participle of fake

1

as in forging

to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive

pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forging
• counterfeiting
• simulating
• inventing
• manipulating
• phonying
• reproducing
• duplicating
• replicating
• plagiarizing
• fabricating
• adulterating
• juggling
• cribbing
• concocting
• doctoring
• tampering (with)
• cooking (up)
• fudging
• reduplicating

2

as in pretending

to present a false appearance of

while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretending
• simulating
• assuming
• feigning
• acting
• affecting
• passing (for)
• bluffing
• professing
• shamming
• counterfeiting
• dissembling
• concealing
• posing
• forging
• putting on
• playing
• imitating
• making believe
• masquerading
• impersonating
• disguising
• masking
• dissimulating
• playacting
• camouflaging
• malingering
• letting on
• feinting

3

as in concocting

to perform, make, or do without preparation

if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech

Synonyms & Similar Words

• concocting
• devising
• improvising
• manufacturing
• extemporizing
• clapping (together or up)
• inventing
• ad-libbing
• hatching
• thinking (up)
• fabricating
• cooking (up)
• contriving
• making up
• dashing (off)
• cobbling (together or up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• preparing
• arranging
• laying
• studying
• considering
• contemplating
• practicing
• readying
• exercising
• pondering
• rehearsing

4

as in evading

to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement

the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right

Synonyms & Similar Words

• evading
• dodging
• juking
• faking out
• slipping
• dekeing
• sidestepping
• pump-faking
• maneuvering (around)
• stutter-stepping

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of faking

The same survey found that 73% of managers admit to faking productivity for their own bosses. — Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

The raunchy stand-up comedian made his unexpected TV debut playing a junkyard and salvage business proprietor prone to get-rich-quick schemes and faking heart attacks. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

By stop-starting Gvardiol — a trick that lulls defenders into a false sense of security — and then faking to go one way and then the other, Messi found space where there seemed to be none and set up Julian Alvarez for Argentina’s third goal. — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026

More to the point, the quarterly reports reflect the highest-quality, detailed information, the information the SEC requires executives to disclose on pain of facing a civil lawsuit from the agency or even criminal liability for faking data. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Huskins Quinn’s case gained national attention after Vallejo police wrongly accused her of faking her disappearance. — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026

And there’s no evidence, no evidence, zero evidence in this country, that there is a problem at scale with people faking their identification in elections. — NBC news, 28 June 2026

Barry will meet the likes of a woman whose husband was accused of faking cancer, with the allegations continuing after his death, and Sophie Dickson, whose daughter Princess Dickson took her own life earlier this year. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 June 2026

The victim managed to escape by faking a seizure. — Joan Murray, CBS News, 12 June 2026