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In a fake way
Answer for the clue "In a fake way ", 7 letters:
phonily
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a phony way, or to a phony extent
Usage examples of phonily.
Sherry, madeira, and port were offered in beautiful but phonily new silver stirrup cups.
All were French, not modern stuff phonily antiqued up but genuine handloom weave.
Obvious coincidences of course happen often enough in life, and Nabokov gives them their due, but he also takes the greatest care not to build plots in which coincidences are chained to one another with the phonily inexorable logic of tragedy.
And finally there were those who went out of their way to make sure she knew just how much they approved, phonily so, unctuously so, as though on the verge of asking if they could watch.
He moaned more pitiably, but just as phonily, than before, as if he wanted to make it clear to her that he would be of no help when Gordon decided to make his move against her.