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Pseudo

adjective

(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of. "Pseudoclassic"

noun

A person who makes deceitful pretenses. Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer.

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"Pseudo" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked across the lawns toward the Cardross villa, a big house of coquina cement, very beautiful in its pseudo-Spanish architecture, red-tiled roofs, cool patias, arcades, and courts; the formality of terrace, wall, and fountain charmingly disguised under a riot of bloom ...

— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... mobs of this, the world would be reformed before the end of the week; for the sluggards who are content to be wealthy without working and the dastards who are content to work without being wealthy, together with all the pseudo-moralists and ethicists and cowardice mongers generally, would be exterminated without shrift, to the unutterable enlargement of life and ennoblement of humanity. We might even make some beginnings of civilization ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

... told me, now that I think on it." That detail had been included in the pseudo-memories he had been given under hypnosis. "I serve Safar, as do all Caleras, but I have heard that the Jeserus' gods are good gods, dealing honestly with ...

— Time Crime • H. Beam Piper

... that has once been admirably done, succeeding writers must necessarily be content for all time to follow in the same main track. But not only is Poe the originator of the detective story; all treasure-hunting, cryptogram-solving yarns trace back to his "Gold Bug," just as all pseudo-scientific Verne-and-Wells stories have their prototypes in the "Voyage to the Moon," and the "Case of Monsieur Valdemar." If every man who receives a cheque for a story which owes its springs to Poe were to pay tithe to a monument ...

— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Anyhow, it is exceedingly difficult to escape from colour in the air of Venice, or from Tintoretto in her buildings. Long, delightful mornings may be spent in the enjoyment of the one and the pursuit of the other by folk who have no classical or pseudo-mediaeval theories to ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

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