Synonyms for faking

Grammar : Verb

Spell : feyk

Phonetic Transcription : feɪk

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Définition of faking

Origin : attested in London criminal slang as adjective (1775), verb (1812), and noun (1851, of persons 1888), but probably older. A likely source is feague "to spruce up by artificial means," from German fegen "polish, sweep," also "to clear out, plunder" in colloquial use. "Much of our early thieves' slang is Ger. or Du., and dates from the Thirty Years' War" [Weekley]. Or it may be from Latin facere "to do." Related: Faked; fakes; faking.

verb pretend

Example sentences :

Nor was there ever such folly, such arrant "faking" as this!
Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker

Again she forgot her lines but she managed to escape by faking conversation.
Extract from : « Helen in the Editor's Chair » by Ruthe S. Wheeler

Faking a punt, Myron sped to the left, cut in and got the distance.
Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour

All I object to is the lying and faking about it, to make it seem to fit the theory.
Extract from : « The Grain Of Dust » by David Graham Phillips

Who could do a better job of faking evidence than a crooked cop?
Extract from : « Twelve Times Zero » by Howard Carleton Browne

All the evidence of faking is destroyed; except M'Clare and me.
Extract from : « The Lost Kafoozalum » by Pauline Ashwell

They sent :: their kids to school, faking local addresses with PO boxes.
Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow

Woman, however, is more expert than man at "faking" a sense of humor.
Extract from : « Famous Prima Donnas » by Lewis Clinton Strang

How about faking some signs of a ruined camp and heading into the blue ourselves?
Extract from : « The Time Traders » by Andre Norton

So, what more natural than that mediums should resort to faking?
Extract from : « The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition » by Upton Sinclair

Antonyms for faking

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