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faking

vb. (present participle of fake English)

Usage examples of "faking".

After faking the coin toss, the task fell to Vickers while Fenton would stay behind and cover for his absence.

I agreed with Eddie: faking a painting did not fit his profile, nor did an anonymous murder.

It turns out that in the last few months our banker has developed a little sideline of his own, faking some of this art, then selling both the original and the fake.

EaglePilcher, the maker of the batteries for our smart bombs, since employees have come forward to accuse the company of allegedly rigging computers to show live response from dead batteries, faking test reports, and gluing up cracks in battery casings to save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Serious Fraud Squad became interested in Bone for a while, but they had been assuming we were faking it and gave up when it was obviously not rubbish.

Nobel laureate from the University of Chicago and Cozzano dropped back to pass, faking repeatedly in the direction of a very tall retired Celtic who was running toward the end zone, waving his arms frantically.

I wonder if he and Weintraub go in for some first-edition faking, or some such stunt as that?

Turning her back to the door, she decided, would only make him suspect she was faking, so she lay on her side facing it, believing it would look more natural.

He would have thought better of her if she had just stated her refusal rather than obviously faking sleep.