Phoney
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that he or she does not hold.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: 1900 Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
Fake
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Not real; false, fraudulent.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A trick; a swindle.Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: 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.To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forgeTo make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.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.
Example sentence: We can't have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That's crazy. You can't have more types of fake news than real news. That's allowing public deception to go unchecked. That's crazy.