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Definition of Faker
1. Noun. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
Generic synonyms: Beguiler, Cheat, Cheater, Deceiver, Slicker, Trickster
Specialized synonyms: Name Dropper, Ringer
Derivative terms: Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake, Fake, Pretend, Pretend, Sham, Sham, Sham, Sham
Definition of Faker
1. n. One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc.
Definition of Faker
1. Noun. one who fakes something ¹
2. Noun. an impostor or impersonator ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Faker
1. one that fakes [n -S] - See also: fakes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faker
Literary usage of Faker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gold Bricks of Speculation: A Study of Speculation and Its Counterfeits, and by John Hill (1904)
"Showing the expert circular writer's mission; the way money can be " lost "; the
convenient mercantile agency; how the " faker " is subject to blackmail, ..."
2. Throttled!: The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters by Thomas Joseph Tunney, Paul Merrick Hollister (1919)
"... IX THE NATURE faker Richard Harding Davis could have done justice to this story.
In December of 1917 we had been eight months at war. ..."
3. Confessions of a War Correspondent by William Gunn Shepherd (1917)
"... THE faker THERE have been three stages in war correspondents' activities in
the Great War. Every one of them might have been noticed by the careful ..."
4. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton by Henry Hawkins Brampton, Richard Harris (1904)
"faker, AND THE WELSH WILL I WAS retained at Hertford Assizes with Peter Ryland,
a practising barrister on that circuit, as my leader, ..."