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Pseudo

adjective

(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of. "Pseudoclassic"

noun

A person who makes deceitful pretenses. Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer.

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... murmured Reggie, as he gloated over a chaste design of fishes in mother-of-pearl, a pseudo-Korin. "Poor old Geoffrey! He's only a barbarian; but perhaps she will be interested. Here, T[o]!" he called out to an impassive Japanese man-servant, "have the flowers come yet, and ...

— Kimono • John Paris

... of independence, a feeling dangerous for a young woman, but one in which her position peculiarly tempted her to indulge. And then Mr. Slope's face, tinted with a deeper dye than usual by the wine he had drunk, simpering and puckering itself with pseudo-pity and tender grimaces, seemed specially to call for such punishment. She had, too, a true instinct as to the man; he was capable of rebuke in this way and in no other. To him the blow from her little ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... markings which result from the use of composite or "piece" molds. Wire was extensively used in the formation of details of anatomy and embellishment, and its presence does not at first seem compatible with ordinary casting. This wire, or pseudo-wire it may be, is generally about one-twenty-fifth of an ...

— Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia • William Henry Holmes

... at us Americans that we love a title, and that we are not averse to the ornamentation of our names with pseudo and attenuated "Honorables" and "Colonels" and "Judge" and so on; and I am bound to admit the impeachment, for I blush at some of my be-colonelled and becaptained friends, and wonder at their rejoicing over such effeminate honorifics, especially those colonelcies born of clattering behind ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... the injured man, in a tone of pseudo-resignation. 'I thought I wouldn't send for you; I thought I'd just see how long it would please you to leave ...

— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte

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