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artificialness

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First he tried making it with just pistachios, but he says, "It didn't have the same, I hate to say it, artificialness to it."

From Salon Apr. 10, 2023

At the same time, the pictures reveal the artificialness of the color, highlighting darker hair strands to some degree in every piece.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2018

But, the more one meditates on humanity, the more one becomes disgusted with its artificialness and bad taste.

From The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story by Roussel, John

"They are subtile but good," Li Wan rejoined; "for there's no artificialness or stiffness about them."

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

Must I be forced to speak with a plainness that will, by comparison, make all my previous plainness seem the very essence of polite artificialness?

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von