faker

Example Sentences

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He’s not as unapologetically hammy as Andrew Polec’s Pirelli, the tonsorial con man who adopts a fake mustache and an even faker Italian accent, but he lends the musical a satiric gaiety.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

“To realize you inspired a faker is just awful,” he said.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

The next faker on my list is … Diana Ross.

From Slate • May 10, 2021

Pearson saw in McCarthy a witch hunter who couldn’t snare a witch — precisely the sort of faker he’d spent his career exposing.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2020

He had always been scornful of root-doctors and all their kind, but now she saw a faker from over around Altamonte Springs, hanging around the place almost daily.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston