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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inauthentic

1783, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + authentic.

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inauthentic

a. not authentic or genuine ; spurious

WordNet
inauthentic

adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: unauthentic, spurious]

Usage examples of "inauthentic".

The boy-wonder physician turned to Junior again and assumed an expression of compassion so inauthentic that if he'd been playing a doctor on even the cheesiest daytime soap opera, he'd have been stripped of his actor's-union card, fired, and possibly horsewhipped on a live television special.

This internal incongruency is sensed by others and contributes to an inauthentic communication that is superficial and boring—like small talk at parties.

At either end of the Street the broadway had risen to meet crisscrossing wave fronts and connect - through oceanically inauthentic tunnels - with other highways.