FAKERY Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

fakery

noun

Definition of fakery

as in deception

the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery if the product were any good, the company wouldn't have to resort to fakery to get people to buy it

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Recent Examples of fakery But it’s all being delivered by the same chaotic social media feeds that increasingly blur fact and fakery. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026 Notably, some mockumentaries blur the lines between reality and fakery. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026 The easy, and increasingly convincing, fakery of artificial intelligence has arguably supercharged it. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 That’s the deficiency side of integrity—where authenticity gives way to fakery, consistency erodes into unpredictability, and transparency slips into manipulation…But swing too far in the other direction, and the skyscraper becomes overly rigid—too stiff to sway with the wind. — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 The green-screen effects are knowing in their outright fakery; the nerdiness of the whole enterprise is lampshaded with a whole setpiece in a comic-book store. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 June 2026 In that vacuum, fakery thrives. — Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 May 2026 Amid all the fakery and flimflam of the pre-regulated drug market, the Shaker brand was the best. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 May 2026 Texas politics, no stranger to dirty tricks, now heads into a hypercharged 2026 election season with few rules governing artificial intelligence, as cheap, realistic tools have made campaign fakery easier to create and harder to detect. — Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026

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Noun

Hosted by Alan Cumming, the social deduction game follows a group of contestants (who are sometimes celebrities) engaging in a Mafia or Werewolf-style game of deception.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
With shifting alliances and deception, only the most calculating player will survive to win it all, per the logline.

— Peter White, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of deception

Noun

The best way Ray can think of to do so is to tail her shady husband, Dom (Bobby Cannavale) — all the way into a sordid (but still vaguely family-friendly) web of deceit, murder, blackmail and gangland drama.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026
These rosy reveries gradually darken as Wilde remembers succumbing to hedonism, deceit, debt, and disgrace.

— Hannah Aizenman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of deceit

Noun

That changed after the 2020 presidential election, when secretaries of state in places such as Arizona, Georgia and Michigan were thrust into battles over election results, certification and false claims of widespread fraud.

— Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
As Vanity Fair reported at the time, the article led to an all-hands meeting at The Times where some staffers questioned the choice to run a soft profile on a woman who had been convicted of fraud and was about to head to prison.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of fraud

Noun

Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.

— Sue Brightman, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2025

Definition of deceptiveness

Noun

The perception of cheating would likely cause trust in politics to crater even further.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
The league urged the Supreme Court to resolve the split, arguing that conflicting rulings leave oversight unclear and raise concerns about cheating, insider trading, and consumer protection.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheating

Noun

Antisocial personality includes a persistent pattern of traits such as callousness, lack of concern, deceitfulness, and irresponsibility, Ryan said.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
Perfidy — from the French perfidie via the Latin perfidia — means deceitfulness, treachery or a breach of faith or promise.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of deceitfulness

Noun

Since the second Inauguration, the Trumps and their satraps have operated with all the commercial cunning of the Corleone family; the White House is their front, their Genco Pura Olive Oil Company.

— David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
Rhaenyra also dismisses Mysaria, a wise move carried out in a very unwise manner, given the woman’s cunning.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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