How To Use Faker In A Sentence
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The method of working in the poorer specimens is very simple, and it pays the "faker" to sell for £2 or £3 what takes, perhaps, only half a day to produce.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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I'm sorry, but shitty aging makeup, croaky vocal fakery and - spoilers ahead - an exploitatively rendered, off-screen death do not a good performance make.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Djokovic did not take kindly to being called a faker, and beat Roddick in the quarter-finals in New York.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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Weather helps fakers, or, as I decided we should start labelling ourselves, reproducers and copyists.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He warns that food allergy fakers are wreaking havoc on restaurant kitchens.
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In the end, however, Young sickens of the relentless, soulless fakery of such beanos and retires to a humble life of scrivening in London.
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Fortunately these approaches create difficulties for the faker and also leave clues for the scientific investigator.
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I hope he doesn't give up music which I think is a truer talent than "fakery".
Sean Penn & Robert Pattinson Will Have 'Water for Elephants' « FirstShowing.net
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I can see me convincing Sir Henry Hardinge of that!" says I. "Of all the double-dyed Yankee fakers -
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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Ppl who buy stuff in traffic only have demselves to blame... and besides, they are supportin "fakery" and street tradin.
Fake fake things everywhere!
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I know what the faker's real name is.
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When you take your laptop to the neighborhood coffee shop you can't help but feeling like a wretched poseur because the very act of taking a laptop to a coffee shop is completely redolent of conspicuous artiness and flat-out fakery.
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He would pore over works for years and years, and that's an obstacle for fakers and forgers.
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There is even a new word for this sort of fakery: 'truthiness'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many pre-employment tests have been designed as part of the hiring process, to spot fakers.
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The romantic ego is, then, on one level, a performer or faker, a legend in its own lunchtime, without any of the centred self-consciousness of great actors or good writers who have something to say.
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Who do some of the discussants blame for the fakery?
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We were the shysters who were into every business deal jamming the honest flow of commerce with fakery and fraud.
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Finally, digital fakery presents the next important issue, particularly for fine art photographers, collectors, and dealers of fine art photography.
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A young man and would-be dancer who comes to New York from small-town Ohio and is bewildered by the city's intensity and fakery, and rediscovers his passion in a tragic act of self-destruction.
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Grieve [Reader in Biomechanics, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London] concluded ‘The possibility of fakery is ruled out if the speed of the film was 16 or 18 fps [as mentioned above, it was apparently filmed at 16 fps].
Frame 352, and all that
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In the highest form the persuader is a teacher and propagandist, changing the policy of peoples; in the commonest form he is a salesman, seeking to sell a commodity; in the lowest he is the faker, trying to hoodwink the credulous.
The Foundations of Personality
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This video Sen. Mike Duffy calling Peter Stoffer MP, a "faker" prior to dashing off an RCMP mess dinner, and this post at Dawg's, caused me to imagine a near future headline reading "Mike Duffy appointed RCMP Commissioner".
Random Associations...
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Viewers seem split into two camps—with some predicting a genuine romance and others slamming Ashley as a faker.
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He laughingly acknowledged that he has been called a flopper, but not a faker.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Did they reach that conclusion because of the guy's skills as a faker, or because of his newfound skills as a professional lensman?
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The romantic ego is, then, on one level, a performer or faker, a legend in its own lunchtime, without any of the centred self-consciousness of great actors or good writers who have something to say.
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There are makers, takers, and fakers, and right now, the latter two outnumber (and outvote and outlobby) the makers by a large margin.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog
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The Tyler Telegram humbly apologizes for having called that wide-lipped blatherskite, T. DeWitt Talmadge, "a religious faker.
The Iconoclast
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Visitors can view the imitations and get a lesson in how the fakers got away with it.
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But the fakery is a continuation of the campaign theme, and an augury for the future.
Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman faked it.
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I wish that soccer would fine those fakers that roll around holding their ankles and then get up and play.
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I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers.
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Jared’s brilliant ability to detect elfin fakery is never established, and Mulgarath’s shapechanging early in the movie is so minimal that it’s easy to forget.
Archive 2008-07-01
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The Michigan Chronicle called it a victory for “an increasingly vociferous element in the community” who demanded that people like Jones, “who exist by the skillful intermixing of religion, fear, faith in God, and outright fakery solely for personal aggrandizement be driven from their lofty perches.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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And by the way, do you suppose that this guy actually uses the word faker in his screen name might be a clue to his authenticity?
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Benefit cuts are fuelling abuse of disabled people, say charities Benefit cuts are fuelling abuse of disabled people, say charities 'I never qualified for disability benefit, yet I'm still called a faker' Youth unemployment report calls for co-ordinated action in 600 hotspots Boy, 11, drowned in respite centre pool after carers were distracted - inquest Follow the latest news on the NHS reforms with our team of health specialists
The Guardian World News
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Photography and fakery have gone hand in hand since the inception of the medium.
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The company sued the fakers and won, and has since agreed with the duped owners to upgrade their vehicles to the company's standards.
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We have been having serious issues with the fakers; the danger in this is that these products are substandard and even harmful.
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You can weed out any fakers in a phone interview.
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Hishorrific wounds and demonic face all paint and fakery for the sake ofthe show, a performer belonging to the Bahurupi nomad communityprepares to entertain villagers in the state of Maharashtra.
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Some fakers are compulsive liars who convince themselves of the truth of their own stories.
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Read her account, and begin to understand what caliber and quality of fakers we're up against.
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Fakers make these pieces for pennies and can sell them for thousands.
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I geographically triassic what all the steinman is compulsorily on the bulge dissent norepinephrine so that i can canonization the shrubbery and tirolean. has to spear at its specifically fizzing, appropriately prophylactic haplotype, and stambul apogamy they jejunostomy to coot faker in mollification to do it.
Rational Review
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I'd call his fakery passive aggressive except it's actually just aggressive aggressive.
The Virginian
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Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery?
John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
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The news business has its share of fakers and phonies.
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If I try to cast my mind back to the time before I knew Arabic, I suppose I thought 'fakir' meant 'yogi, swami, thin person with straggly beard who lies in bed of nails'; but I'm pretty sure I always saw the connexion with 'faker' as just an accident.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?
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“Every dollar that’s lost to a faker is one more dollar that can’t be spent on a veteran,” said O’Neill, whose office is responsible for rooting out those who defraud VA.
Phony Veterans and POW's - Article Index
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Experienced physicians have gotten savvy at spotting fakers.
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Fortunately these approaches create difficulties for the faker and also leave clues for the scientific investigator.
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The implication, it seems to me, is that 'faker' is not just an occasional misuse but a common US meaning, and I don't agree.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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Fakery, fiction and actual recorded history swirl together in this intelligent and readable book.
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Real discoveries of phenomena contrary to all previous scientific experience are very rare, while fraud, fakery, foolishness, and error resulting from overenthusiasm and delusion are all too common.
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There was a propensity of employees to neglect the medical needs of teens, sometimes calling them fakers.
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If Mr. Burroughs cannot answer to his own satisfaction, he may call Dr. Romanes a nature-faker and dismiss the incident from his mind.
The Other Animals
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The more intelligence we can provide, the greater the chance we have to defeat the fakers who seek to dupe the unsuspecting consumer.
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If the industry can't shut down the fakers, he may be right that the company will fail.
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Note that polished surfaces present far less of a problem to the faker than unpolished surfaces.
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Matching fashion exercise gear only made me feel like a big faker.
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It's a part of it and to deny that would have been fakery.
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As much as the reporters snickered about the campaign fakery, and occasionally cracked about it in print, there is no question that they were attracted to the big-campaign symbolism like moths to a lamp.
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Fakers are an especially big problem for electronic accessories shoppers.
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I geographically triassic what all the steinman is compulsorily on the bulge dissent norepinephrine so that i can canonization the shrubbery and tirolean. has to spear at its specifically fizzing, appropriately prophylactic haplotype, and stambul apogamy they jejunostomy to coot faker in mollification to do it.
Rational Review
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This judgment demonstrated that not all the evidence submitted comprised of bogus claims from fakers, as had been suggested.
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Read her account, and begin to understand what caliber and quality of fakers we're up against.
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But when I checked the OED definition, I found that the OED gives it a sense of "faker" as an Americanism.
Languagehat.com: FAKIR/FAKER
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Should we simply accept that the messiness and contestability of contemporary politics leave little room for Principled Pollyannas who refuse to engage in any kind of feigning, fibbing, and fakery?
John Seery: Bush the Bluffer
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Look closely enough at a fake and eventually you'll find the faker has either overlooked something.
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Highend fakers aren't just effecting watchmakers.
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Its shape was a brazen imitation of the classic boxy Mini designed by Alec Issigonis 40 years before; and the fakery continued inside the car with a soup plate speedometer and toggle switches that self-consciously harked back to the Sixties.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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To make visible that extreme degree of artificiality, and to clarify the fact that such fakery is the normal condition of poetry that masquerades as personal feeling, is an intellectual accomplishment of some magnitude.
Life of Letitia Landon
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In an extreme case of sex fakery, an orchid produces oddball chemicals that mimic a female wasp's allure so well that males prefer the floral scents to the real thing, scientists say.
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The Internet can spot a faker a mile away.
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The stainless steel storage of the baptistry faker the proximate day with ron at the salicales ubiquitous his two misstep into a blastodermatic alliterator.
Rational Review
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The sporting fakery is far more extensive than previously thought, and goes beyond discoveries that the opening ceremony included computer-generated fireworks and a 9-year old singer who mimed to a recording.
Entire Beijing Olympics faked
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It includes bogus demographics, minor details shorn of context, calumnies against the victims and remorseless fakery.
Times, Sunday Times
