fakery

fakery
noun
the 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)
Etymology: fake (III) + -ery
: the practice or a product of faking

this, 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]

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fakˈery noun
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Main Entry:fake

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