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

As a lapsed Catholic and nonbeliever I have avoided Mass, prayer and religion because to participate I would feel like a faker.

From New York Times • May 21, 2022

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

His wife, Jessica Realin, said the rumor among police officers was that her husband was a faker trying to game the system.

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2018

And I guess now I don’t feel like a big faker for trying to put my life back together.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky