I must admit, I was not aware of "fictitious faxes"!! Thanks for enlightening me.
As for fictitious articles, perhaps this will shed the FINAL light on the whole (more and more dreary) matter:
Entry Word: fictitious
Function: adjective
1. suggestive of fiction especially in lacking a sound factual basis
Synonyms: fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictive, unreal.
Related Word: concocted, created, invented, made-up; fabricated, fashioned; cooked-up, false, made-up, trumped-up.
2. not genuine <The cub reporter submitted a fictitious article to his editor.>
Synonyms fake, mock, sham, simulated.
So we can then see that the articles (such as the ones appearing in The Onion are fictitious, as shown in example #1 above, lacking a sound factual basis.
We can also say a fictitious article is:
A fanciful article.
An unreal article.
A concocted article.
An invented article.
A made-up article.
A fabricated article.
A cooked-up article.
A trumped-up article.
A "not genuine" article.
Or...
A fake article.
I shall now go to bed and have sweet dreams of all the fictitious articles (of which there are many) that I have read in my life -- including the fictitious series of articles that a woman reporter had her paper run (The Washington Post) for which she won a Pulitzer until it was discovered they were fictitious!!! (She had to return the prize and was fired by the paper.)
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