- fakery
- nounthe act of faking (or the product of faking)• Derivationally related forms: ↑fake• Hypernyms: ↑deception, ↑deceit, ↑dissembling, ↑dissimulation
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\\-k(ə)rē, -ri\ noun (-es): the practice or a product of fakingthis, according to insurance men, was something unique in fakery — Henry La Cossitt
were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledgehammers failed to crack them — Time
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/fay"keuh ree/, n., pl. fakeries.the practice or result of faking.[1885-90; FAKE1 + -ERY]* * *
fakˈery noun• • •Main Entry: ↑fake
Useful english dictionary. 2012.