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

He claims to possess the historical sense, by virtue of which he is able to separate the genuine from the ungenuine portions of the Gospels.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks