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Faker   /fˈeɪkər/   Listen
noun
faker  n.  
1.
One who fakes something; as
(a)
A thief.
(b)
A peddler of petty things.
(c)
A workman who dresses things up. (Slang)
2.
A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
Synonyms: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, fraud, sham, pseudo, pseud, role player.





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"Faker" Quotes from Famous Books



... high-voltage current from the other. But anyone who wants, any time, can disprove the whole principle of the induction coil. All you have to do is wrap your core with a nonconductor, say nylon thread, and presto, nothing comes out. You see, it doesn't work; and anybody who claims it does is a faker and a liar. That's what happens when science tries to investigate psi ...
— Sense from Thought Divide • Mark Irvin Clifton
... first. It is different from anything else they have heard. The sufferer often makes up his mind that the healer is a fool or a faker. He remembers that when he went to the conventional physicians they sounded and thumped him and examined all his excretions. They were very thorough and scientific. The natural healer does not generally go into so many details. ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker
... armchair, which appeared to belong to the best Empire period; the exquisite wedding-chest, of lacquer, the blues and greens of its floral decorations still daringly brilliant and vivid—they were far brighter and more perfect than any decorations which a faker of antiquities ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer
... payments were in copper pice, four of which make one of our cents, but many of these priests had great heaps of this coin in front of them, showing that though India may be suffering from a bad harvest the faker may always feed on ...
— The Critic in the Orient • George Hamlin Fitch


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