fake

IPA: fˈeɪk

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
(archaic) A trick; a swindle
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

(transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
(transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
(archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
(archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
(music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Examples of "fake" in Sentences

Lindsay was in what we call fake rehab earlier this year.
I had done what we called a "fake album," where we did an album in twelve hours.
The culprit, according to a 2006 study, is having to exude what they called fake happiness.
PrezHuddleston is a prankster, who makes his ruse explicit by putting the word "fake" in his profile name.
Mention should be made here that the revisionist CPI leadership within years backtracked and from 1955 officially declared that what it called fake independence before was actually real independence.
My disagreement arises via the term fake, (not that strong a dispute mind you on an evening when the Senate passed the Bush-backed terrorism spy bill, sure to reduce civil liberties and puts Gonzales at the forefrontwith a like-minded watcher).
Promoted to Headline (H3) on 2/28/09: Clintons promote their second Monsanto 'fake food safety' plan that destroys farmers yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Clintons promote their second Monsanto \'fake food safety\' plan that destroys farmers '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: "Food safety" bills in Congress are "harmonized with the EU" and violently opposed by American farmers.