| mendacious(adjective, fake, counterfeit, sham, phony) |
| mockery(noun, trick, deception, con, fraud) |
| not real(expression, adjective, idiom, fake, artificial) |
| parallel(noun, imitation) |
| phoney |
| plagiarized(counterfeit, simulated, imitative, unoriginal, derivative) |
| pretense(noun, fake, copy, deception, counterfeit) |
| pretentious(adjective, wrong, fake, false, counterfeit) |
| quack(noun, adjective, person, fake, informal) |
| queer(wrong, fake, false, counterfeit, phony) |
| self-styled(adjective, virtual, would-be, quasi) |
| shifty(adjective, unpredictable, fickle, variable, undependable) |
| simulation(noun, copy, imitation, replica) |
| spoof(noun, fake, trick, copy, deception) |
| substitute(adjective, fake, informal, false, counterfeit) |
| supposed(adjective, fake, counterfeit, lying) |
| suppositious(adjective, wrong, fake, informal, false) |
| suspect(adjective, informal, doubtful, dubious, suspicious) |
| travesty(noun, trick, deception, con, fraud) |
| trumped up(verb, expression, adjective, phrasal verb, fake) |