ungenuine
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Now iPhones as old as XR models can warn if a battery is ungenuine, while iPhone 12 and 13 can call out more including the cameras.
From The Verge • Dec. 9, 2021
Or, if you were painfully aware that so much of what fronts as sincere is in fact ungenuine or calculating sentimentality and otherwise bogus, you could come up with a new style.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019
Attempts to rebuild her reputation via magazine covers in which Heigl apologized to America seemed somehow ungenuine, or less nourishing than picking apart Heigl’s statements.
From Time • Nov. 17, 2014
Horses that struggle with their breathing on soft ground look ungenuine and don't want to know.
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2011
In the Decretals of Gratian1344 are collected the earliest authorities about marriage in the Christian church, some of which are regarded now as ungenuine.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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