ersatz

They were done to give a thin patina of ersatz legitimacy to what is otherwise flagrant sexual assault.

An elderly couple dances under flashing lights in an ersatz disco club.

Our hopes have gotten so cheesy that even the cheese is ersatz.

We put our heads together and in the calmer light of logic, and much ersatz coffee, solved the problem.

Plus, the song is catchy and rich with emotion which, although it may be ersatz, is pop perfection.

There was Tylerton—an ersatz city, but looking so real and familiar that Burckhardt almost imagined the whole episode a dream.

We were getting German ersatz coffee which was bitter and resembled coffee only by its color.

The dear old chap was eating lotus in his Fool's Paradise, thinking it genuine pre-war lotus and not war ersatz.

It went along with the ersatz rustic decor of the rest of the Sky Hi Club.

We weren't used to strong coffee, and these warmed-over grounds were much better than Kaffee-Ersatz.