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• n  a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• This show started out fake and just got faker.
• It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and .
• Another faker, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, last week finally smashed the rock upon which his world was founded: "I began to question what an acceptable reality really .

• imposter
• impostor
• pretender
• fake
• fraud
• sham
• shammer
• pseudo
• pseud
• role player

News & Articles

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• Interpreter for deaf at Mandela event called fake
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As one world leader after another paid homage to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service, the man standing at arm's length from them appeared to interpret their words in sign language. But advocates for the deaf say he was a faker.
  Dec. 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Mandela ceremony interpreter called a 'fake'
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The sign-language interpreter on stage at Nelson Mandela's globally broadcast memorial service was a faker who was just waving his arms around meaninglessly, advocates for the deaf said Wednesday.
  Dec. 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Mandela interpreter ‘made up all his signs’
  He’s a faker, hands down! The official sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s world-televised memorial in South Africa yesterday was a hand-flapping phony, who made up motions as he went...
  Dec. 11, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Larry King in Melbourne Herald Sun
  If you're not you're the best faker I've ever seen,King replied.
• Dennis Felton in Online Athens
  As far as Carlos is concerned, he's the biggest faker and flopper -- he's fraudulent,Felton said on radio. "The plays that he went down holding his head as if he had gotten shot, he does it all the time, but (Saturday) he did it to an...
• Brendan Shanahan in NJ.com (blog)
  I was calling him a faker until I saw him spit out blood,Shanahan said of Alfredsson. "I really didn't think I got him, but he obviously wasn't faking. It was a great kill to hold them to no shots. I was upset (with the double minor call)...