He was even friendly to me and proclaimed that one day he and I, too, would work together on a piece, though his statement sounded patronizing and his smile ungenuine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Let's first dispel any doubt that the offered reasons for awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace prize were ungenuine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The lie, which soon became an untruth (for people came genuinely to believe this ungenuine account), was that Keats's sensibility, his sensitivity, the thinness of his skin, and the coagulatory thickening within his troubled mind were responsible first for his abdication, so discouraged was he by the reception of his poems, and then for his death. ❋ Ricks, Christopher (2009)
There is something ungenuine in the way he is coming across. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is the most ungenuine congressperson of the 10th I have ever seen. ❋ Ellen Beth Gill (2007)
Reasonably, you assume some of it is real and some is for appearances' sake, and you're always trying to pry apart which is which, and what genuine motives give rise to the ungenuine edifices people construct around themselves. ❋ Hth_the_first (2007)
Anyone who uses the Jewish Community for their own personal benefit is a Fraud, ungenuine. ❋ Ellen Beth Gill (2007)
He suspected his smile looked at least as wan and ungenuine as hers. ❋ Graf, L. A. (1996)
She affected the same ungenuine interest and affection for Glen that had characterized Addie's manner toward him. ❋ Stella M. Francis (N/A)
And as this repair was executed at a period when this class of architecture was ill understood, the mouldings were very badly wrought, which, with the unfortunate colour and surface of the Portland stone, has given the window a most ungenuine air. ❋ Hartley Withers (1908)
She had a remarkable finesse and power of expression, and however ungenuine and artificial she may have appealed to him in personal association, everything she wrote seemed to him to be natural and convincing. ❋ Jakob Wassermann (1903)
As far as I could read and understand, it was absurd, perfectly ungenuine. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)
Hilary and Anna had lately sung this wail together, but not to its end, she had called it "so ungenuine." ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
Neither was there anything ungenuine in the rapture of the boy whom we saw racing through the dead leaves of that woody hollow in chase of the wild fancies that fly before boyhood; and I hope that the charm of the plinths and statues in the careless grounds behind the soft, old, yellow Casino was a real charm. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
He held it daintily between him and the sun for a smiling moment, and then said, as if our wine must needs be as ungenuine as our Italian, -- was perhaps some expression from the surrounding currant-bushes, harsh as that from the Northern tongues which could never give his language the true life and tonic charm, -- "But I suppose this wine is not made of grapes, signor?" ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
+ In the Decretals of Gratian [1344] are collected the earliest authorities about marriage in the Christian church, some of which are regarded now as ungenuine. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)
Jean Jacques Rousseau produced indeed no system of ethics, but he exerted in the sphere of moral opinion an influence such as no author before or after him ever exerted, and felt even up to the present day, — not indeed because he uttered deep thoughts, but because he gave expression to what lay in the spirit of the age, — himself an utterly ungenuine character — under the form of ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
Everybody conversant with the subject knows that an author's style, if genuine, (and it is not properly a style, but a mannerism, if ungenuine,) is a just measure of his mind, and an authentic registration of all his faculties and forces. ❋ Hudson, H N (1872)
It seemed that the equality must be ungenuine where the sign-names of castes were still in vogue; but those sign-names have certainly lost their offence and are wholly neutralized, nullified and harmless if they are the undisputed property of every individual in the nation. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
One little incident seems curiously traceable: that he had given her a set of tablets which his friend had given him; and the sonnet in which he excuses himself to his friend for having done so, seems to us the only piece of special pleading, and therefore ungenuine expression, in the whole. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
1. "Man, Lin just hit me up. I havent heard from that guy forever, he told me he was gonna be in town next week and asked if he could crash for a few days. That guy is so [ungenuine].."
2. "Don't invite Tony to your kegger, he's so ungenuine.. He never pitches to bring any booze and always invites like 50 [randos].."
3. "My bunk-mate came home last night with a girl, woke me up and tried to [kick me] out of the room so he could bang her on the bottom bunk.. That guy is such an ungenuine POS." ❋ Some Mr. Montgomery (2013)
