“When he claimed that he could show them where the loot was buried, nothing was found and he was dismissed as a faker.”

“Did they reach that conclusion because of the guy's skills as a faker, or because of his newfound skills as a professional lensman?”

“Note that polished surfaces present far less of a problem to the faker than unpolished surfaces.”

“I couldn't afford a real Gucci, so I just bought a cheaper fake.”

“The doctor was discovered to be a fake after working at the hospital without qualifications for many years.”

“I couldn't afford a real Gucci, so I just bought a cheaper fake.”

“The doctor was discovered to be a fake after working at the hospital without qualifications for many years.”

“I'm not invested in the authenticity or fakery of the box one way or t'other.”

“When somebody says they can get life out of non-life, they're practicing fakery, not science.”

“Photography and fakery have gone hand in hand since the inception of the medium.”

“What was more shocking, however, was the fakeness of it all, like a 1980s revival show but with even worse tunes.”

“Excessive bleaching looks ridiculously unnatural up close, but Hollywood is the place where fakeness is celebrated.”

“This phrase means that you rise above that and manage to be a good person despite the fakeness.”

“It is by seeing the market clearly in its fakeries that he outwitted it to get so rich.”

“There is no point watching it or playing it, and we might as well stick to the fakeries of wrestling.”

“Which brings us to a third type of reader: someone like Ricky Jay or David Mamet, who loves all arts of the con or swindle, the fakeries and grotesqueries of the itinerant performer's precarious life.”

“Read her account, and begin to understand what caliber and quality of fakers we're up against.”

“Some fakers are compulsive liars who convince themselves of the truth of their own stories.”

“I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers.”