Affected
Pretend
Pretend adjective - Being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials.
Usage example: if you were to see the movie's pretend jewels in real life, you wouldn't be fooled for a minute
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When The Weekenders find themselves at the mall's Petting Zoo, Carver tries to pretend he's not affected by all the cute animals...until he spots a bunny.
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Cigar-Fuse Lighting: Near the end of "Homefront", Jarod uses the cigar he affected as part of his pretend persona to light the fuse on a diversionary explosion, then throws it away and is cigarless thereafter.
Source: Series / The Pretender - Abigail Williams from The Crucible is the teenage sociopath who started the Salem Witch Trials by getting her friends to pretend that they were being affected by witchcraft as a cover up for why they were practicing a voodoo ritual on an old slave of Abigail's family.
Source: Magnificent Bastard / Theatre
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