[
UK
/ɪnɔːθˈɛntɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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false or fake; not what it appears to be
a spurious work of art
How To Use inauthentic In A Sentence
- There are numerous non-French vineyards pumping out inauthentic champagne.
- Critics saw this move into the thriller genre as an admission of the inauthenticity of his supposedly factual work. Times, Sunday Times
- In this kind of inauthentic, aesthetically impoverished fiction, the writer has latched on to fiction as a vehicle for "saying something," not as a form of verbal art in which the work must "say" for itself. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
- The film may be taken as an argument for how the repression of homoerotic desire leads to inauthenticity and death.
- Take "freysshe grece boyling" - I use canola oil which is inauthentic but doesn't smoke. Even in a little thing
- But it does seem to foster a culture of "inauthenticity": It disrupts identity itself by bypassing the conscious mind and targeting aspects of the self over which none of us has control. Science Comes to Selling
- But only in recent years, experts say, have they begun routinely disenrolling Indians deemed inauthentic members of a group. NYT > Global Home
- Imagine a generation of American teenagers starting Kabuki theatre groups in their garages, and you have some idea of the problem - inauthentic doesn't even begin to describe it.
- inauthenticity" of movies that cast straight actresses as lesbians. StarTribune.com rss feed
- On the other hand, if a woman artist speaks of militarism, imperialism, war and capitalism, she is still frequently rapped on her knuckles for inauthenticity, for transgressing into areas beyond her area of competence.