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fingiert (adj)  bogus, fake, feigned, fictitious, sham, simulated

In diesem Krimi wird ein Mann erhängt im Wald entdeckt — wie sich später herausstellt, ein fingierter Suizid.
In this crime drama a man is found hanged in the woods — as it later turns out, a faked suicide.
Grundlage für diesen Übungseinsatz war ein fingierter Überfall auf ein Juweliergeschäft.
The basis for this practice deployment was a simulated robbery of a jewelry store.

Related: fingieren to fake, fabricate, feign, simulate, vorgetäuscht faked, feigned, simulated, vortäuschen to fake, feign (interest), simulate

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