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Spurious
adjective – Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.
Usage example: claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks
Pretended is a synonym for
spurious in
counterfeit topic. You can use "Pretended" instead an
adjective "Spurious", if it concerns topics such as
false,
bogus.
popular alternative
Nearby Word:
spuriously