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 or artificial

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

[French, from Old French fals; see false.]

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From French faux.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Our definitions of civility obviously differ greatly, probably when it comes down to what I call faux civility.

    No, That’s Not The Difference 2006

  • The politicians are also adept at what I call faux reform.

    Political Class Dismissed 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Maybe if you want to engage in faux-logical takedowns you should, you know, brush up on your logic? southpaw Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Goldfarb Endorses Terrorist Ethics 2009

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Astounding!

    Look at poor benevolent, currently with 10 listings - at any other time it would have made the top spot.

    January 8, 2009

  • Now we're up to 17. Is wordie achieving critical mass? Or is it all a fauxnomenon?

    January 8, 2009

  • HARRRRRRRRRR!

    January 8, 2009

  • 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

  • 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