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3 letters

DUD
An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

4 letters

SHAM
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

COPY
Matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials

HOAX
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

JUKE
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

BULL
A serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"

COOK
Someone who cooks food

FAUX
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

5 letters

FUDGE
Soft creamy candy

FEIGN
Make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"

FORGE
Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping

PHONY
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

BOGUS
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

HOKEY
Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

POSER
A person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"

FAKER
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

FRAUD
Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

PSEUD
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

6 letters

PHONEY

ERSATZ
Artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

RINGER
(horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg

PHONEY
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

WANGLE
An instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery

UNREAL
Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

PSEUDO
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

7 letters

FALSIFY
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

FEIGNED
Not genuine; "feigned sympathy"

NOTREAL

FORGERY
Criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

SHAMMER
Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

BASTARD
Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"

8 letters

IMPOSTER
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

SIMULATE
Make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

KNOCKOFF
An unauthorized copy or imitation

IMPOSTOR
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

SPURIOUS
Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

POSTICHE
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

BULLSHIT
Obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"

9 letters

SYNTHETIC
Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch

SIMULATED
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

IMPOSTOR.

IMITATION
Something copied or derived from an original

CHARLATAN
A flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

PRETENDER
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

10 letters

ROLEPLAYER
A theatrical performer

ARTIFICIAL
Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

MANIPULATE
Treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed

11 letters

COUNTERFEIT
A copy that is represented as the original

12 letters

MISREPRESENT
Tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

18 letters

TALKTHROUGHONESHAT