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fakeful

fakeful adjective: full of fakeness; disingenuous.

Adjective

fakeful (comparative more fakeful, superlative most fakeful)

  1. (rare) Full of fakeness; disingenuous
    • This last sparsely descriptive, but largely imaginative; not fact, but fiction, pure and fakeful, and of such a specious species as to effectually discourage and scare away intending raw recruits and cause the while full many a gullible and guileless reader to wonder overmuch just why in this good...1906, Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times, volume 40, page 6
    • This is the most important part of Discipleship because the “proof is in the pudding!” And our “Fruit” will carry us out as being “faithful” or “fakeful!”2013, John Pierce, "Mental Jesus"

Forms of fakeful

comparativemore fakeful
superlativemost fakeful

Origin of fakeful

From fake + -ful.

Questions about fakeful

What does fakeful mean?
Fakeful means full of fakeness; disingenuous.
What part of speech is fakeful?
Fakeful is an adjective.

Words near fakeful in the dictionary

  1. fakeer
  2. fakeers
  3. fakefan
  4. fakefans
  5. fakefen
  6. fakeful
  7. fakegasm
  8. fakegasms
  9. fakehood
  10. fakeitude
  11. fakelaki

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