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Fauxgress 

Technological advancement that actually diminishes utility / usability compared to what it replaced.

Favoured in particular by technology companies desperate for people to upgrade their devices, they will add on all sorts of flashy new functionality which at best is useless, and at worst is actually less functional than the prior version (see: the removal of the headphone jack on smartphones).
"Man, the face-unlock on this new phone is total fauxgress - it makes me move my phone in front of my face whenever I want to unlock it; thumbprint unlock was way more simple"
Fauxgress by Wyldstalyns January 3, 2019
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Fauxpresentation 

Fauxpresentation is when an entity or entities do the BARE MINIMUM to represent a marginalized group, minority, and the underrepresented with shallow interest. The efforts made to include said groups is usually half-assed, cloying, offensive, stereotypical, etc. Faux-presentation usually happens, but is not exclusive to, when people want more money, clout, votes, album sales, and etc.
Most political campaigns use fauxpresentation of minorities around election time but neglect them after election season is over.
Fauxpresentation by KissTheDragon September 18, 2018

fauxpressed 

Pretense of victimhood or oppression in order to win undeserved sympathy and notice.
That Occupy Wall Street protester standing over there holding a Starbucks coffee and talking on his cell phone is sure fauxpressed.
fauxpressed by Red Jack December 2, 2011

fauxmless 

One who identifies himself as homeless when he, in fact, has a home; frequently a nice one.
With a propensity for melodrama and several hours to kill between checking out of his hotel and his flight home, Joel became fauxmless.
fauxmless by Birthday Who-er April 29, 2009

fauxgressive 

A fake progressive.

A politician, pundit or other political player that pretends to be progressive while actually supporting unprogressive/corporatist policies.
Barack Obama is a fauxgressive. He pretends to be progressive in his campaigning, but he rarely fights for progressive causes and consistently supports corporatist, unprogressive policies.
fauxgressive by DeathByTrolley August 16, 2011

fauxgressivism 

noun: the practice of pretending to be a progressive while really just acting like a prick.
I'm sick of all the fauxgressivism these days. What's progressive about this whole "FOREIGNERS ARE STEALING OUR JOBS" bit?
fauxgressivism by sparklesgrrl December 17, 2008

fauxpression 

The claim of some kind of oppression or other adverse condition being inflicted against the claimant personally or to a group/faith to which the claimant belongs to that is obviously hyperbolic or at least certainly exaggerated in terms of severity.
Generally Ted's libertarian beliefs seemed to have merit until he went fully down the fauxpression road by claiming that taxes literally made him a slave.
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a lad that is such a lad that he is a proper lad
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person2: ya he was a proper lad
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