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Nouns (12)

juke

n. (football) a deceptive move made by a football player

sham, postiche

n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

fraud, sham, role player, imposter, impostor, pretender, faker, pseudo, pseud

n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Verbs (10)

counterfeit, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

wangle, fudge, cook, manipulate, falsify, play with, misrepresent, tamper with

v. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (4)

imitation, false, simulated, faux

adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

Fuzzynyms (219)

copy

n. a secondary representation of an original; "she made a copy of the designer dress"

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

trick, fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

quack

n. an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

pharisee

n. a self-righteous or sanctimonious person

defamer, maligner, slanderer, libeler, backbiter, traducer, libeller

n. one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel

crook, criminal, felon, outlaw

n. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

thief

n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

act, play, represent

v. play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master"

perform, give a performance

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

fake, wangle, fudge, cook, manipulate, falsify, play with, misrepresent, tamper with

v. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

lift, plagiarize, plagiarise

v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

manufacture, construct, fabricate

v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

warp, falsify, distort, garble

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

model, simulate, reenact, re-enact

v. create again

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

doctor, sophisticate, adulterate, doctor up

v. alter with the intention to deceive

abuse, misuse, pervert

v. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

disguise, cause not to be recognized

v. make unrecognizable; "The herb disguises the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

camouflage, provide with a camouflage, disguise by camouflaging

v. disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory"

misrepresent, belie, represent falsely

v. represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"

pirate, copy illegally

v. copy illegally; of published material

hijack, highjack, pirate, commandeer, expropriate

v. take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"

loot, plunder

v. take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

strip, foray, pillage, rifle, plunder, ransack, despoil, reave

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

reproduce, make a copy of

v. make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"

raise, rear, put up, set up, erect

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

double, duplicate, repeat, reduplicate, replicate

v. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

ape, copy, imitate

v. appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

improvise, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise

v. perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"

sham, assume, feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate

v. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

appear

v. appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.; "Gielgud appears briefly in this movie"; "She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage"

look, appear, seem

v. give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"

appear, seem

v. come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon"

lead on, deceive, cozen, delude, mislead knowingly

v. be false to; be dishonest with

juggle, hoodwink, beguile

v. influence by slyness

bunco, con, gyp, swindle, rook, mulct, nobble, diddle, defraud

v. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

act, play, represent

v. play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master"

perform, give a performance

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

counterfeit, fake, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

raise, rear, put up, set up, erect

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

manufacture, construct, fabricate

v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

model, simulate, reenact, re-enact

v. create again

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

abuse, misuse, pervert

v. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

doctor, sophisticate, adulterate, doctor up

v. alter with the intention to deceive

warp, falsify, distort, garble

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

disguise, cause not to be recognized

v. make unrecognizable; "The herb disguises the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

camouflage, provide with a camouflage, disguise by camouflaging

v. disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory"

misrepresent, belie, represent falsely

v. represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"

put, position, place, set, pose, lay

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

propose, propose marriage, pop the question

v. ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

submit, refer for consideration, refer for judgment

v. refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"

present, submit, give formally

v. hand over formally

unfaithful, disloyal, faithless

adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended

adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

made-up, fictitious, fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictive, invented

adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"

Synonyms (26)

manufacture, make up, invent, fabricate, cook up

v. make up something artificial or untrue

arranged, staged

adj. deliberately arranged for effect; "one of those artfully staged photographs"

colored, coloured, bleached, dyed

adj. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde"

cardboard, unlifelike

adj. without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures"

celluloid, synthetic

adj. artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"

conventionalized, stylized, stylised

adj. using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; "a stylized mode of theater production"

dummy

adj. having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"

imitation, substitute, ersatz

adj. artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

factitious

adj. not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"

synthetic, man-made, semisynthetic

adj. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"

Antonyms (7)

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

authentic, unquestionable, veritable, bona fide

adj. not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"

true

adj. consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"

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