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Meanings of inauthentic in English

Intended to deceive.

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Examples for "spurious"
Examples for "spurious"
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Of course the reason offered by the Bank of Ireland is spurious.
The Irish Times
2
Consequently, data cleaning is of paramount importance in excluding spurious genotyping results.
Pubmed
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Gruesome as the idea was, I didn't believe the association was spurious.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
4
They could no longer cling to spurious claims about how education corrupts.
The Guardian
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Because I am quite certain this charge will prove to be spurious.
Layover in dubai
1
Even those who tried to dress like natives were obviously unauthentic.
The Winds of Dune
2
They were not spurious, nor, so far as we know, unauthentic; but rather imperfect.
Companion to the Bible
3
The Liquor Rooms, for example, is almost hilariously unauthentic.
The Irish Times
4
Perhaps this is the reason why hunters, even the unauthentic ones, put down their guns.
Ecological intelligence: rediscovering ourselves in nature (easy...
5
If you, like me, are of Jamaican ancestry, the accents can come off as unauthentic.
Ebony
Usage of inauthentic in English
1
Judge makes function follow form, and it renders the stories inauthentic.
Reuters
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Music that skews inauthentic is almost always more popular in the present tense.
Eating the dinosaur
3
Football thrives on friction between clubs but is it inauthentic to create one?
The Guardian
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You never gave your real name at a support group, you inauthentic shit.
Fight Club
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Yet the separation between nonviolence and feminism feels inauthentic to me.
Feminist dot com
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Timberlake was first blasted for his tribute because many felt it was inauthentic.
Ebony
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Facebook, which owns Instagram, already prohibits harassment and co-ordinated inauthentic activity.
News.com.au
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Unfortunately, the whole thing feels wretchedly inauthentic and more than a little dull.
The Irish Times
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The irony, I think, in this, is that marketing authenticity is inherently inauthentic.
The new yorker
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Nothing seems so depressingly inauthentic as a conspicuous yearning for authenticity.
The Irish Times
11
For the present 'inauthentic' Epistles, as this objection will reappear again.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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They sounded as inauthentic as they felt coming from her mouth.
The secret life of ceecee wilkes
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Each of the services bans deceptive practices and inauthentic accounts.
Reuters
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Some X-men are habitual relationship line steppers whose friendliness can feel inauthentic and divisive.
Ebony
15
The only inauthentic thing we want in our reality TV contestants is their lips.
News.com.au
16
If girls are in inauthentic relationships, they are more apt to have eating disorders.
Feminist dot com
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