fake

fake
v
1. counterfeit, invent, forge, fabricate, manufacture, Brit. coin; concoct, hatch, create, make up; lie, fib, tell a lie or fib or story.
2. falsify, alter, modify; whitewash, disguise, color, paint a rosy picture, doctor up, gloss or varnish over.
3. pretend, feign, sham, malinger, dissemble, act, make believe, play the role of; affect, put on, assume, take on; (all fraudulently) simulate, imitate, copy, duplicate, mimic, ape.
n
4. counterfeit, two-dollar bill, wooden nickle, brummagem; fraud, imposture, imposition, hoax, artifice, ruse, delusion.
5. faker, imposter, deceiver, mountebank, charlatan, quack, empiric, Inf. phony, Australian. bunyip; feigner, pretender, malingerer, imitator; falsifier, counterfeiter, copier, plagiarist.
6. fabrication, fiction, contrivance, concoction, Inf. story; falsehood, lie, white lie, fib, untruth, half truth.
adj
7. counterfeit, fraudulent, imitation, not genuine, Inf. phony; bogus, spurious, supposititious, pinchbeck, bastardly, Australian. bunyip.
8. false, unreal, insincere, mock, ersatz, synthetic, plastic, Sl. hokey; artificial, factitious, contrived, fictitious; assumed, put-on, pseudo; specious, meretricious, theatrical; pretended, feigned, simulated, make-believe, sham, flash

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