How to Use inauthentic in a Sentence

inauthentic

adjective
  • But just to go out there and try to be Oprah would be inauthentic as well.
    Anton Corbijn, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
  • My mom comments that the flavor is inauthentic and the A/C is too cold.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
  • One of the locks did not yield enough DNA to study, and another proved to be inauthentic.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • What The Woman on the Window may have on its mind at the end is that all memory is, in a way, inauthentic.
    Kyle Turner, Town & Country, 20 May 2021
  • Would any win for a non-white actor feel kind of inauthentic?
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • From time to time, that starts to feel too rehearsed—and therefore inauthentic.
    Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2016
  • The inauthentic inquiry came to light the day before the justices of the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 opinion in favor of Smith.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
  • The video has been panned by Carlin fans as hollow and inauthentic.
    Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The expressed intent of such perks — to take care of workers’ needs — can be inauthentic.
    John Kim, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • But would what is essentially a bribe make the whole thing feel inauthentic? Do not take this not a screed against the NBA or its stars.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In the end, Scott came across as inauthentic and deeply misguided.
    CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Still, the Democrats have grown sufficiently weak in Ohio that even an inauthentic Vance will be hard to beat.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Spence and his team determined all of them to be inauthentic.
    NBC News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The name sounds slightly inauthentic, and harks back to the days when Americans didn't know from mapo tofu or bao buns.
    Bonnie S. Benwick, charlotteobserver, 27 June 2017
  • But even Neil Young fans know that Blinken’s song choice came across as inauthentic and unrousing.
    Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • Something must be done to curtail the supply of fake news and inauthentic content.
    Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • But at what point does that message start to appear inauthentic?
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But Solomon emphasized that NBC won’t be adding inauthentic audio beyond what’s heard in the venues.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • Latin music tastes are constantly changing, and Sie7e didn’t want to jump onto a trend that was inauthentic to him.
    Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
  • As for the other seven locks, one was inauthentic, five had identical DNA, and one could not be tested.
    Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The painting was then analyzed by experts at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid and deemed as inauthentic.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
  • This is the crux of the disagreement between Musk and Twitter, with the company long stating that less than 5% of its accounts are inauthentic.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 May 2022
  • Regardless, there is nothing that feels inauthentic about the flavor of this whisky.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2022
  • But the selling of inauthentic goods isn’t limited to one weekend bazaar in late August.
    Alexandra Mondalek, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • After all, this isn’t the company’s first brush with claims of inauthentic products.
    Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2021
  • If a brand takes a position that is inauthentic, it will be exposed, alienate this cohort, and the brand will be penalized and lose Gen Z’s trust.
    Michael Stone, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Some said the door knockers were indifferent or rude, while others said the full-court press from Never Back Down felt inauthentic.
    Kellen Browning, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Even the overall conceit, of mourning a lost love, feels wholly inauthentic.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
  • Bringing up how Harris frames her identity was a targeted effort to charge Harris as inauthentic, says the person close to Trump.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
  • As videos circulated of the speech, her critics accused her of using linguistic pandering and being inauthentic.
    Theara Coleman, theweek, 11 Sep. 2024

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