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Example sentences for: faux

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(Conservative critics have complained that Moyers is pernicious because he is faux high culture.
The original fount of preppiness has been reduced to deploying an army of image-makers to reclaim customers from faux WASP competitors such as Ralph Lauren.
The fact that Al Gore doesn't grin much is eloquent testimony to the fact that he's a St Alban's graduate and (at best) what Doug Marlette calls a faux Bubba.
, the Air Force One faux pas), but the Democrats and the media have preferred to knife him in the back.
Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)