inauthentic
[in-aw-then-tik]
- not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
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Origin of inauthentic
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Contemporary Examples
The whole point of “going native” is that the familiar Western civilization is portrayed as inauthentic, ugly, broken, flawed.
It has been pointed out to me—sometimes in a mean way—that my experience as a Jew is inauthentic.
And the president has to be himself too, not the sudden apparition of an inauthentic pol.
Black conservatives, as Commentary lamented in 2011, are often “regarded as inauthentic, self-loathing, soulless race traitors.”
And, of course, such a quest was as sophisticated, as unprimitive—possibly as inauthentic—as anything could be.
Historical Examples
The wit isn't dull, and the serious intention, hid in those mummy wrappings, is not inauthentic.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IIElizabeth Barrett Browning
inauthentic
- not authentic; false
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Word Origin and History for inauthentic
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