Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Artificial; fake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
fauces .
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- adjective
Fake orartificial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Recently Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook) stated that this year Facebook would have one billion participants -- most of whom spend endless daily hours enlisting the membership of what I label "faux friends"(FFs).
Jill Lynne: Life Is Not a Popularity Contest! Jill Lynne 2011
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Our definitions of civility obviously differ greatly, probably when it comes down to what I call faux civility.
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The politicians are also adept at what I call faux reform.
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Papa John: A Music Legend’s Shattering Journey Through Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll was a brick of a book with the title faux spray-painted on the jacket in neon colors.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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Papa John: A Music Legend’s Shattering Journey Through Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll was a brick of a book with the title faux spray-painted on the jacket in neon colors.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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Papa John: A Music Legend’s Shattering Journey Through Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll was a brick of a book with the title faux spray-painted on the jacket in neon colors.
HIGH ON ARRIVAL MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 2009
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After one gruesome Sunday when the diocese brought in faux-congregations to each parish, an interim court ruling in February 2008 gave the ANiC parishioners full use of their buildings.
The Diocese of Niagara: Rev. Susan Wells and the art of victimhood « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Yo man I'm a loyal MSNBC follower and I'll challenge ya to a duel of intelligence but your obviously unarmed ... keep watchin faux news buddy!
Republicans raising cash to counter-program ABC Obama special 2009
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On Wednesday I told you about my very * spéciale* family ... and a certain faux amis that was rendering them insane ... en tout cas* to the French.
faux amis 2010
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Maybe if you want to engage in faux-logical takedowns you should, you know, brush up on your logic? southpaw Says:
yarb commented on the word faux
Listed 12 times in the last seven days, which is the most I can remember seeing in my time monitoring the "most wordied" list.
Edit: 14!
January 7, 2009
sionnach commented on the word faux
15 now, yarb. I added it just for you. Now I'm going to have to delete something to get back to my pleasing 14K total.
January 7, 2009
yarb commented on the word faux
Astounding!
Look at poor benevolent, currently with 10 listings - at any other time it would have made the top spot.
January 8, 2009
yarb commented on the word faux
Now we're up to 17. Is wordie achieving critical mass? Or is it all a fauxnomenon?
January 8, 2009
dontcry commented on the word faux
HARRRRRRRRRR!
January 8, 2009
bilby commented on the word faux
In fact there are six 'most wordied' currently in double figures. Is it still in the 'last seven days' or has the time period been extended?
January 11, 2009
yarb commented on the word faux
I think it's still just about within 7 days, bilby. It seems that a load of (perhaps related) newbies added certain words this week.
January 12, 2009