inauthenticadjective
/ɪn.ɔːˈθen.tɪk//ɪn.ɑːˈθen.t̬ɪk/If something is inauthentic, it is not real, true, or what people say it is:
He criticized the restaurant's inauthentic food.
The characters in the book feel very inauthentic.
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- Customers want the real thing, not inauthentic replicas.
- This dish is completely inauthentic because Italians don't eat sweetcorn.
- Is instant forgiveness inauthentic and unhealthy?
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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