fakeful
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fakeful (comparative more fakeful, superlative most fakeful)
- (rare) Full of fakeness; disingenuous
- 1906, Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times, volume 40, page 6:
- 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 day of grace the poor seafaring main-behind-the-guns should have to live (and get fat) on meat so smeared and smirched with printer's ink.
- 2013, John Pierce, "Mental Jesus":
- 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!”