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fakeful en · ADJ

Etymology

From fake + -ful.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Full of fakeness; disingenuous
    • 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. 1906, Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times, volume 40, page 6:
    • 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!” 2013, John Pierce, "Mental Jesus":

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most fakeful Degree=Sup lexicographic
more fakeful Degree=Cmp lexicographic