Adopted in order to deceive:
— Fictive sympathy.

synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham.

Roget 546: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato [It], invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory^†, illusory; ironical; soi-disant [Fr.] etc. (misnamed) 565.    ... show more

Capable of imaginative creation.