ungenuine

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Now iPhones as old as XR models can warn if a battery is ungenuine, while iPhone 12 and 13 can call out more including the cameras.

From The Verge • Dec. 9, 2021

Or, if you were painfully aware that so much of what fronts as sincere is in fact ungenuine or calculating sentimentality and otherwise bogus, you could come up with a new style.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019

Attempts to rebuild her reputation via magazine covers in which Heigl apologized to America seemed somehow ungenuine, or less nourishing than picking apart Heigl’s statements.

From Time • Nov. 17, 2014

Horses that struggle with their breathing on soft ground look ungenuine and don't want to know.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2011

The charge was not that they were ungenuine, nor that their contents were false; but they were dangerous.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville