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

Kimmell gained the Ducks’ zone, faking a slap shot and then curling back toward the blue line to find a trailing Haula. —Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026

Victoria Beckham’s headline-making A-line haircut is an ideal choice for faking density on thin hair types. —Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026

The companies involved were accused of faking documents presented to Nepali authorities and insurance companies, as well as forging passenger and cargo manifests, Nepali police said in a press release last month. —Manish Paudel, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026

Precocious seven-year-old Arabella convinces a troubled young woman to take her on a road trip, accidentally faking her own kidnapping—and leaving her father, played by Chris Pine, in a panic. —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026

After faking the shot, Pastrnak fed Arvidsson for the one-timer. —Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026

Martin Necas set him up in the high slot, and after faking a slap shot, MacKinnon rifled a wrister past Pittsburgh goalie Arturs Silovs. —Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2026

Cumming found that taxpayers spent more than $694,000 on 15 contractors to help troubled youth, and at least two of those contractors committed fraud, overbilling Baltimore by thousands of dollars and faking invoices. —Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026

The crueler ones accused her of faking the whole thing and staging the incident for attention. —Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026