faker

noun

Definition of fakernext
as in fake
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise the medium was exposed as a faker who was herself making the strange noises that she claimed were from the dead

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faker
  1. fake
  2. fraud
  3. sham
  4. pretender
  5. impostor
  6. charlatan
Noun
  • These worries extend beyond potential deep fakes and foreign intervention, which have dominated recent news coverage.
    Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • State of play: Election officials in heavily Latino states like Arizona have already expressed concerns about the use of deep fakes.
    Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios), Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of fake
Noun
  • Read Article > Elon Musk spent Election Day on X praising men, amplifying anti-immigrant conspiracies, and accusing Democrats of voter fraud.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The pauses on some ads come as election officials have already spent weeks trying to combat viral misinformation about the election, including uncorroborated allegations of machines flipping votes and claims of widespread fraud in mail ballots.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of fraud
Noun
  • The elections promised by the junta, slated for 2025, have also been denounced both domestically and internationally as a sham that would grant the junta the guise of legitimacy but offer little actual democracy.
    Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The 2023 trial that led to his death sentence had been widely condemned as a sham by Germany, the United States and multiple international human rights organizations.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of sham
Noun
  • Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of pretender
Noun
  • The only people who never feel like impostors are the real impostors.
    Melody Wilding, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Which was presumably not difficult to do after Daniela, having at last discovered that the man sleeping in her bed for the past month was an impostor, bonked Jason B on the head and shoved him down the basement stairs.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 June 2024
Definition of impostor
Noun
  • One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
  • What’s interesting about it is that in the book, the Dragon Queen is very obviously a con woman and a charlatan right away, and she was based on someone that’s real.
    Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of charlatan
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