factitious

adjective

the outcry was, to a certain extent, factitious:

bogus, fake, not genuine, specious, false, counterfeit, fraudulent, spurious, trumped-up, sham, mock, feigned, affected, pretended, contrived, unnatural, fabricated, manufactured, engineered;

artificial, imitation, simulated, ersatz;

informal phoney, pseudo, pretend;

British, informal cod;

rare adulterine.

▷antonyms genuine.

factitious Oxford Dictionary of English