ingenuine

English

Etymology

in- +‎ genuine

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛnjuːɪn̩/, IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛnjuːaɪn̩/
Rhymes: -ɛnjuːɪn̩ or Rhymes: -ɛnjuːaɪn̩

Adjective

ingenuine (comparative more ingenuine, superlative most ingenuine)

false, not genuine or authentic.
- 1993, Sam Kirscher, Working with Adult Incest Survivors: The Healing Journey (page 81)
  This description of the female therapist may have been a transferential distortion, an accurate reading of an ingenuine therapeutic stance, or both.
- 1995, J. P. Telotte, Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film (page 164)
  Yet those accomplishments may well be forged, that is, a bit ingenuine, since, as our films must inevitably do, they leave the very forces of repression intact […]

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Translations

false, not genuine or authentic

German: falsch (de), gefälscht (de), nicht echt, unecht (de), nicht authentisch, unwahrhaftig (person), unaufrichtig (de)

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