faux, fausse

faux, fausse (FR ADJ) false, not true, going against truth; not what it seems to be; wrongly named or called; deliberately misrepresented; not natural to someone; not justified or founded; not what it should be; possessing bad judgment; unrealistic; dissonant. First appears in French in 1080 spelled fals, from Latin falsus, fallere (to trick). (Eluard, Klingsor, Racine, Silvestre, Villon)