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1
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
- presumably the statue is of factitious marble, because for that price you're not going to get the real stuff
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2
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
- the factitious friendliness shown by the beauty-pageant contestants to one another
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- automatic,
- canned,
- concocted,
- fabricated,
- hokey,
- labored,
- manufactured,
- pat,
- unauthentic,
- unreal,
- unrealistic
- double-dealing,
- empty,
- facile,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- mealy,
- mealymouthed,
- two-faced,
- unctuous
- exaggerated,
- histrionic,
- melodramatic,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- theatrical
- (also theatric)
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The first known use of factitious was circa 1624
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