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- adverb In a way that is not
authentic .
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Examples
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That is, they were accused of acting white or being inauthentically black as they slowly but surely rose to the top.
Ron Christie: A Cautionary Tale of Three Black Men Ron Christie 2010
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That is, they were accused of acting white or being inauthentically black as they slowly but surely rose to the top.
Ron Christie: A Cautionary Tale of Three Black Men Ron Christie 2010
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That is, they were accused of acting white or being inauthentically black as they slowly but surely rose to the top.
Ron Christie: A Cautionary Tale of Three Black Men Ron Christie 2010
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Rather than risk judgment and abandonment, a human being will withhold her truth, live inauthentically and convince herself that it is the right thing to do.
Iyanla Vanzant: How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They're Going Through: Lie or Leave Iyanla Vanzant 2010
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It just needs a large volume of stories that somehow relate to the word "zits," no matter how clumsily or inauthentically the connection is made.
Shawn Amos: Content Is Best Fresh -- Not Farmed Shawn Amos 2011
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That is, they were accused of acting white or being inauthentically black as they slowly but surely rose to the top.
Ron Christie: A Cautionary Tale of Three Black Men Ron Christie 2010
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Standing there in the doorway of my South Bronx classroom, watching seventy-plus Black and Latino/a students dancing to the Siam-via-Broadway soundscape of reverberating gongs, pentatonic xylophone riffs and heavily (if inauthentically) Asian-inflected vocals, I try to answer Alethea's question as clearly as I can.
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Too bad he didn't inauthentically convert to Evangelical Christianity.
"The last candidate for president of the United States from a major party that will take public financing was me." Ann Althouse 2009
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In the world of The Candidate, the honestly progressive McKay is a sure loser next to the inauthentically centrist McKay.
Josh Bolotsky: Screening Liberally Big Picture: What The Candidate Got Right - And What It Got Wrong 2008
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Detractors have attempted to allude to his middle name, "Hussein," as another indicator that he is inauthentically American.
Gregory S. Parks: A New Race(ism?) -- Unconscious Bias in the '08 Campaign 2008
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