pinchbeck

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Adjective
  • Many of the individual works are stellar, but the theme is so baggy as to be meaningless, and the wall labels have a rote, pseudo-academic quality.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • If the tree happened to be on ancestral indigenous land, someone invented racist, pseudo-indigenous fictions to lend the tree an aura of romance.
    Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • You are supposed to participate in a pantomime of feigned shock and delayed recognition.
    Bluesky Social, Bluesky Social, 22 Aug. 2025
  • When Devon essentially goes undercover as a Michaela disciple to keep an eye on Simone, Fahy gets to embody a friction between her character’s actual and feigned personalities that’s delightful to watch.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom have warned consumers that counterfeit Labubu are poorly made and may contain small, detachable parts such as eyes, hands, and feet, which present a serious choking hazard to young children.
    Haicen Yang, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • An exam by an independent certified jeweler confirmed the watches were counterfeit.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The most negative and spurious viral videos are the ones that are leading to the most views for advertisers.
    John Brandon, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • While all these claims were eventually discredited, Setlow said many other spurious findings have been published in respected scientific journals.
    F.D. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Websites with unusually long browser names or a lack of searchable company representatives or contact information could be fraudulent.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Blount deposited money into the account until April 2022, when the bank shut it down and reversed over $70,000 worth of the fraudulent deposits, prosecutors said.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While this might not sound like a large number of soldiers for an entire continent, the number itself is misleading.
    Daniel R. DePetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But that figure is misleading if interpreted as a direct price for data.
    Seth Joseph, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • He’s charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The subdials are in blue, yellow and red in honor of the Colombian flag, and the forged carbon tachymeter bezel is framed with a ring of rose gold.
    Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Transformers and GANs can produce identical sets of phony PII (name, SSN, DOB and digital activity) that appear completely authentic.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Many on the British right have become convinced that victory in the war was in some way phony.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Pinchbeck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinchbeck. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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