fakery

1 In an age of reality television, journalistic fakery and political mendacity everyone knows that words and images can distort and mislead.

2 "Resolutely oppose money worship, hedonism, and extreme individualism and arduously correct bad tendencies such as abusing one's powers, fakery, unprincipled acts, and harming others for profit," said the document, published Wednesday on government websites.

3 In Ms. Fineman’s view, the history of fakery in photography is as old as the medium itself.

4 In the 1850s, a British chemist called Arthur Hill Hassall became convinced that the whole food supply of London was riddled with toxins and fakery.

5 Fear of fakery has not stopped the boom.

对伪造名酒的担忧并没有阻止名酒的市场繁荣。

6 As Dostoevsky reminds us in “The Gambler,” the entire milieu was fake and designed to attract fakers, and the biggest fakery of all was the pretense that this was all respectable.

7 Would the fakery have fooled merchants of the time?

这种造假术是否骗过了当时的商人?

8 I have to be honest with myself and remove as much of the repetition and fakery as is humanly possible.

9 if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech

10 There’s so much fakery, in fiction as in life.

11 This closing scene, however, was the epitome of the campy fakery that characterized all of “Ritual.”

12 The nerd in me wants a bit more rigor, a bit more plausibility underneath the exuberant fakery.

13 “Smoke and mirrors,” the “You” showrunner Sera Gamble said, “are basically the entire job description of making cinematic entertainment. Everything requires fakery.”

14 Malcolm X for some reason suddenly began to deliver a spate of attacks against Elijah Muhammad, making more bitter accusations of “religious fakery” and “immorality” than he ever had.

15 More fakery going on – they're making out it's a salubrious suburb of south-west London, when actually it's deepest darkest Peru.

16 Even for an actor, who dissembles for a living, pretending a storm is over before it has begun requires a special degree of discreet fakery.

17 And given his preoccupation with fakery, it’s not surprising that he might express contempt for those whose profession it is to deceive.

18 No faking I’m not just talking about “When Harry Met Sally” fakery, either.

19 Other tools of disinformation include state media, online influencers and networks of fake accounts that can quickly amplify false and misleading content.

20 My own guess is that the fakery runs all the way through, like lettering through a stick of rock, and that this does not necessarily make it any less authentic.

1 伪装

put-on simulant pose mask shit disguise cloak camouflage masking guise colouring masquerade semblance feint belie

2 欺诈

two-tongued fraudulent shifting oblique sham deceitful rascally Janus-faced shift trick gouge dishonesty deceit guile humbug bunco gyp covin chantage flam circumvent mump monkey tricks forked tongue monkey business fast one

3 赝品

tack imitation bogus sham pinchbeck

4 伪造物

fake fabrication counterfeit forgery

5 假货

junk phony dud duff phoney

6 伪造

sophisticated bogus phony spurious snide phoney imitative hyped-up adulterine bastardly postiche sophistication forgery falsification adulteration wangle scratch forge counterfeit duff fake imitate fiddle fabricate falsify feign sophisticate

7 捏造

concoctive false cooked ungrounded trumped-up mendacious fiction invention concoction mendacity build-up frame trump cook manufacture fake invent fabricate fudge concoct feign vamp wangle