Fake vs. Facade

Not real; false, fraudulent.

Example: ‘Which fur coat looks fake?’;

(of people) Insincere.

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

A trick; a swindle.

(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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

To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

Example: ‘to fake a marriage’; ‘to fake happiness’; ‘to fake a smile’;

(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.

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

A trick; a swindle.

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.

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do.

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

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

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

make a copy of with the intent to deceive;

Example: ‘he faked the signature’; ‘they counterfeited dollar bills’; ‘She forged a Green Card’;

fake or falsify;

Example: ‘Fudge the figures’; ‘cook the books’; ‘falsify the data’;

talk through one's hat;

Example: ‘The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it’;

fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;

Example: ‘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’;

not genuine; imitation or counterfeit

Example: ‘she got on the plane with a fake passport’; ‘a fake Cockney accent’;

(of a person) claiming to be something that one is not

Example: ‘a fake doctor’;

a thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham

Example: ‘fakes of Old Masters’;

a person who falsely claims to be something

Example: ‘I felt sure that some of the nuns were fakes’;

variant spelling of flake

forge or counterfeit (something)

Example: ‘she faked her spouse's signature’;

pretend to feel or have (an emotion, illness, or injury)

Example: ‘Rob faked suspicion, a jealous concern’;

make (an event) appear to happen

Example: ‘he faked his own death’;

trick or deceive someone.

variant spelling of flake

(architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.

(by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.

(figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front.

The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its façade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

the face or front of a building

a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant