Definition of "faux" []

• Artificial; fake: faux pearls. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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)."
• "Our definitions of civility obviously differ greatly, probably when it comes down to what I call faux civility."
• "The politicians are also adept at what I call faux reform."