inauthentically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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But trying to inauthentically manage the situation and making things look overly staged could backfire and the "narrative of a feud will become permanently baked in".
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
Google has also planned a mid-November policy update to require that election-related ads must include a disclosure if they contain "synthetic content that inauthentically depicts real or realistic-looking people or events."
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2023
Don’t castigate or talk about protests and even riots by inauthentically referencing Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent message when you haven’t read or heard the whole of his truth.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2020
This type of exposure is not without its emotional effects; nor is the constant pressure that comes with a phone to broadcast one’s life – one’s inauthentically perfect, happy, glorious life.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2019
Maya's bowl cut and retainer age Erskine down as well, ridiculously but — and this is crucial — not inauthentically so.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2019
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