factitious

• And when you write words like "factitious," know you look even more like an idiot. —  Beyond Meds
• And I cannot pump up emotions to order; and if I could they would be factitious, artificial, insincere, and do me more harm than good.' —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• The author follows closely the life and customs of the day In spite of the main incident and its consequences being historically factitious, the tale presents a vivid picture of the young King and his people, and the London of that time THIRTEEN YEARS OF AGE p. 171 Where go the children? —  A Mother's List of Books for Children
• Their evident feeling--and evidently genuine feeling--is feeling for the factitious, for the manufactured, for what the French call the confectionné_. —  French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
• But if the stones are factitious, the statues might have been put together on the place, in their present position, and the cylinder put on by building a mount round them, as above mentioned. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14

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