factitiousadjective
uk/fækˈtɪʃ.əs/us/fækˈtɪʃ.əs/formalartificial rather than natural:
The excitement was largely factitious and confined to the media.
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- hokey
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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