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English
Etymology
From fake + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fakey (comparative more fakey, superlative most fakey)
- (colloquial) Fake.
1993, Helen Gurley Brown, The Late Show: A Semiwild but Practical Survival Plan for Women over 50, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 103:We do many before and afters at Cosmo with models (who don't look all that great before the makeup, incidentally) and civilians, and none of them ever continues to do the “after” makeup on a regular basis. Too much work, too fakey and, if you’ve pulled all the stops out every day, where would be the joy and drama when you need to look really fabulous?
2009 June 27, Alastair Macaulay, “His Moves Expressed as Much as His Music”, in New York Times:It is easy to dislike many of the later videos: even as early as the late ’80s, the kind of drama he puts onto screen often looks fakey, and isn’t always rescued by his skill as a performer.
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