Forced and Phony

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Forced adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

Usage example: wasn't too excited about their wedding plans and so gave them a forced smile

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Phony and forced are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Phony" instead an adjective "Forced".

Nearby Words: force, forceful, forcible, forcefully, forcibly

Phony adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

Usage example: she always has this phony smile just before she betrays you

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Forced and phony are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Forced" instead an adjective "Phony".

Nearby Words: phoney, phone, phoning

Since the phony surgeon captures Beth, Mick is forced to beg Josef to turn him back into a vampire.

Source: Series / Moonlight
My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Gretchen says this after recieving her first A- in "The Dude" My Little Phony: in one episode, the tomboyish Spinelli being forced to watch "My Furry Unicorns".

Source: Western Animation / Recess
They dressed up the concentration camp/ghetto, Theresienstadt (located in what is now the Czech Republic), to look like a pleasant little settlement, with phony mock-ups of quaint store-fronts & cafes and forced the prisoners to pretend to be happy & entertained.

Source: The Cake Is a Lie

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