Word: spuriousness
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...They Knew What They Wanted, Anderson's Winterset). Like his good friend the late John Barrymore, he was a notorious eccentric (his alleged favorite sport: frightening Boy Scouts). He characterized himself as "an honest actor within my limits, counterfeiting as conscientiously as I know how the spurious creatures of the drama...
...Bagdad beggar who masquerades as a prince (played with characteristic swaggering gusto by Ronald Colman) is a professional adventurer whose resourcefulness and cunning are limited only by the extent of the script writer's familiarity with some of the old Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary...
...Southern statesmen wage a ceaseless battle for their world of poll taxes, racial intolerance, lynchings and indiscriminate mockery of the Chief Executive. Why don't the Southern Senators secede from their party? If they did, at least they would no longer stigmatize the remaining Democrats with their cant, spurious oratory and hypocrisy...
...kind of low, clammy, soft-footed, zoot-suited, Persian prolixity and Madame Overdone Hotbed, bawdy and Baluchistan tribesman sort of spurious de luxe taste had crept in during . . . the past 20 years. Against all this the good gray typographer, B.R., has set his vertical spine...
Barbara's turn lasted nearly 20 years while Jim, as a Hollywood writer, galloped downhill from glory to glory. Barbara, at length, began to enjoy herself with the one really spurious character in the book, an opportunistic stallion of a Russian painter, whose sudden death landed her in a shrewdly described sanatorium. There she learned enough about herself and her husband to win the reader's sympathy...