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
Her charges were skilfully, if unintentionally, trained in hypocrisy and mean motive, to look for low reward and strive for paltry ends—to do what looked well, say what sounded well, to be false, veneered, ungenuine.
From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher
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