inauthentically
In fake manner
In a way that is false, fake, or not genuine.
Someone who acts inauthentically presents themselves as something they're not: She smiled inauthentically at the guests.
Food prepared inauthentically departs from traditional methods: The dish was inauthentically Americanized.
The word often carries judgment about lacking integrity or betraying one's true self.
Through intentional dishonesty
- dishonestlyIn an untruthful manner
- deceitfullyIn a lying manner
- falselyContrary to fact
- duplicitouslyWith deliberate dishonesty
disingenuously · underhandedly · misleadingly · shadily · sneakily · crookedly · treacherously · unscrupulously
In an insincere way
- spuriouslyIn a counterfeit manner
- syntheticallyBy manufactured means
- artificiallyIn a manufactured way
- ersatzArtificial and inferior substitute
pseudo · knockoff · copycat · forged · replicated · simulated · fabricated · faux
With artificial manner
- artificiallyIn a manufactured way
- superficiallyAt surface level only
- performativelyThrough action itself
- theatricallyIn a stagey manner
ostentatiously · pretentiously · pompously · showily · flashily · fakely · phonily · stagily
In an empty manner
- mechanicallyDone by machine action
- perfunctorilyDone without genuine interest
- woodenlyIn an expressionless manner
- stiltedlyIn artificially formal way
unconvincingly · emptily · lifelessly · robotically · flatly · coldly · detachedly · half-heartedly
fraudulently
Through intentional dishonesty
- dishonestlyIn an untruthful manner
- deceitfullyIn a lying manner
- falselyContrary to fact
duplicitously · disingenuously · underhandedly · misleadingly · shadily · sneakily · crookedly · treacherously · unscrupulously · unethically
fakely
In an insincere way
- spuriouslyIn a counterfeit manner
- syntheticallyBy manufactured means
- artificiallyIn a manufactured way
ersatz · pseudo · knockoff · copycat · forged · replicated · simulated · fabricated · faux
affectedly
With artificial manner
- artificiallyIn a manufactured way
- superficiallyAt surface level only
- performativelyThrough action itself
theatrically · ostentatiously · pretentiously · pompously · showily · flashily · fakely · phonily · stagily · mannered
hollowly
In an empty manner
- mechanicallyDone by machine action
- perfunctorilyDone without genuine interest
- woodenlyIn an expressionless manner
stiltedly · unconvincingly · emptily · lifelessly · robotically · flatly · coldly · detachedly · half-heartedly · apathetically
inauthenticallyauthentically
In a real manner
genuinely · really · truly · legitimately · veritably
authentic, authenticity, authenticate, authentication, inauthentic, authentically, unauthentic, unauthenticated, inauthenticity