fakery

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the act of faking (or the product of faking)

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Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't. Robert J. Shiller

Séances lost their popularity with the invention of infrared photography when it became possible to see what mediums were doing in the dark. Nowadays, spiritualists' fakery is more ambiguous and subtle. Derren Brown

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery. Malcolm Mclaren

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. Kathie Lee Gifford

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. Martin Filler

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world. Steve Martin

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