What's the difference between faux and feral?

Faux


Definition:

  • (n.) See Fauces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wonder what Hussain makes of a media insider like Toby Young, who has made no secret of his wish to create a faux private school out of taxpayers' money.
  • (2) It’s drummed into us from the first day of medical school: “First, do no harm.” We can do without tepid, faux-conflicted advice from the likes of Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS.
  • (3) One board member said earlier this year that “we’ve got these things that we actually are guilty of and we’ve got to fix them.” That level of self-awareness was considered a rare break from form – and even a faux pas – for JP Morgan.
  • (4) These faux pas by the Institutional Revolutionary party candidate, famous for his good looks and telenovela star wife, at the international literary festival in Guadalajara, left Mexico's social and mainstream media buzzing with mockery.
  • (5) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
  • (6) I’m reminded of the semi-faux fury we heard from Google’s executive chairman , Eric Schmidt, over the NSA’s literal wiretapping of its internal data systems.
  • (7) They arrived in a black Camaro with Dare (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) scrawled on its side in blazing faux graffiti, one officer explaining how his department had seized it from a drug dealer.
  • (8) Although Bernardi had been active on Twitter since users had pointed out the faux pas, tweeting a link to an “interesting story and video” about the European migrant crisis, he neither acknowledged nor deleted the misattributed quote.
  • (9) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (10) Please, get rid of the gimmicks – the faux-concerned and impersonal feedback loop and the specious “choice” paradigm designed to soften us up for privatisation – and listen to your frontline staff.
  • (11) The group imposed a reign of terror, dressing up its violence with cult-like rituals: new members were initiated wearing faux medieval costumes, including plastic helmets and tunics emblazoned with red crusader crosses.
  • (12) Decrying or mocking Spicer’s massive faux pas, we can stop thinking about the damage being done to our environment and our schools, about the mass deportations of hard-working immigrants, about the ongoing war that Trump is waging against his poor and working-class supporters, about the ways in which our democracy is being undermined, every minute, every hour.
  • (13) Isn’t he being a bit faux modest, I ask, especially when he insists that what he does is comedy and not news?
  • (14) Today it is the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union that defies court orders, shuts down entire city blocks and outrageously intimidates workers who refuse to join its faux working class rebellion .
  • (15) Casting over this visit to Australia – only his second to the country – is the shadow of a recent faux pas.
  • (16) In an attempt to fill the gap left on shop shelves, a whole industry making faux European cheeses has sprung up over the past year, with Russian dairy factories trying to master the techniques that Italian farmers perfected over centuries.
  • (17) Dolezal’s specious claims to black ancestry and faux black identity could not have been sustained and she would not have been able to pass if black womanhood were seen and understood as more than skin – or weave – deep.
  • (18) But for a man so measured, and with such precision apparent throughout his film-making, the reaction seems perhaps faux-naif.
  • (19) I was surprised by the soundman's impatient intrusiveness and yet more surprised as I stood just off set, beside the faux-newsroom near the pseudo-researchers who appear on camera as pulsating set dressing, when the soundman yapped me to heel with the curt entitlement of Idi Amin's PA.
  • (20) "He looks just like you," my daughter said with faux admiration.

Feral


Definition:

  • (a.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
  • (a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tests were conducted on naturally infected fish from feral populations and commercial sources, as well as on fish which were experimentally infected with a virulent culture of Aeromonas hydrophila.
  • (2) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
  • (3) Mann describes herself as a "feral child", running naked with dogs or riding her horse with only a string through its mouth.
  • (4) The yeast Cyniclomyces guttulatus (Saccharomycopsis guttulata) was shown in this study to line the stomach of domestic and feral rabbits, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
  • (5) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
  • (6) From one side we hear that it's about feral youth, and from the others its all about inequality.
  • (7) In New Zealand's four main feral red deer populations (n = 188) the DIA1F allele frequency ranged from 0.491 to 0.985.
  • (8) Evidence of viral transmission by feral animals was not obtained.
  • (9) A behavioural study of feral horses was conducted on the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in the western United States.
  • (10) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
  • (11) Six hundred sixty-one feral swine (Sus scrofa) from Ossabaw Island, Georgia (USA) were captured, bled, and their sera tested for pseudorabies virus (PRV) antibody during a 6 yr period.
  • (12) This is the first study in which it has been possible to demonstrate a close morphological congruity between a set of idiopathic hepatic lesions in any feral population and an established series of hepatic lesions inducible in rodents by certain hepatocarcinogens under laboratory conditions.
  • (13) For periods of 3, 6, and 12 months, 104 feral rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were on test.
  • (14) The feral heart stopped at a mean of 10-4 hours (range 0-5 to 25 hours) after the injection of PGF2alpha.
  • (15) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
  • (16) The social behavior of feral horses was studied in the western United States.
  • (17) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (18) Captive feral mares were similar to domestic breeds in the percentage of mares ovulating all year and in the P levels achieved during the estrous cycle and pregnancy.
  • (19) Having been quite feral, he was proud of his domestication."
  • (20) Some breeds came from other countries, others were developed from feral animals and yet others were created in this state by crossing and selective breeding.