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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

artificial, phony or fake;

e.g. The commercial for injury lawyers had bogus claims that their firm couldn't support.

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Similar Words

Affected

Artificial

Contrived

Counterfeit

Cutesy

Dummy

Ersatz

Factitious

Fake

False

Faux

Feigned

Forced

Forged

Glib

Imitation

Imitative

Inauthentic

Insidious

Man-made

Mechanical

Mimic

Mock

Phony

Pinchbeck

Plastic

Pretend

Pseudo

Put-on

Queer

Sham

Simulated

Snide

Spurious

Strained

Substitute

Subtile

Synthetic

Trickish

Unauthentic

Unnatural

Untrustworthy

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Opposite Words

Actual

Artless

Authentic

Bona fide

Certifiable

Easy

Effortless

Extemporaneous

Genuine

Honest

Impromptu

Impulsive

Instinctive

Legitimate

Natural

Premium

Pure

Quality

Real

Realistic

Right

Sincere

Smooth

Spontaneous

True

Unaffected

Unconscious

Unfaked

Unfeigned

Unforced

Unprompted

Unrehearsed

Unstudied

Valid

Valuable

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Related Words

Adulterated

Affected

Apish

Artful

Artificial

Automatic

Backhand

Backhanded

Beguiling

Brummagem

Calculated

Canned

Conscious

Conventional

Counterfeit

Cultivated

Cultured

Cute

Deceitful

Deceptive

Deliberate

Delusive

Designer

Double

Double-faced

Dummy

Empty

Exaggerated

Facile

Factitious

Fake

Fallacious

False

Feigned

Forged

Fraudulent

Genteel

Goody-goody

Histrionic

Hokey

Hollow

Hypocritical

Imitation

Imitative

Impersonal

Inflexible

Insincere

Janus-faced

Jive

Labored

Left-handed

Lip

Man-made

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Mimetic

Mimic

Mincing

Mock

Nonfunctioning

Ornamental

Pat

Phony

Pinchbeck

Premeditated

Process

Pseudo

Rigid

Simulated

Slavish

Specious

Spurious

Stiff

Studied

Substitute

Synthetic

Theatrical

Two

Two-faced

Unauthentic

Unctuous

Unoriginal

Unreal

Unrealistic

Wooden

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