Ersatz

He's been through a lot.” “I'll bet he has,” Harold replied, and just for an instant Larry felt distrust, felt that Harold's quick sympathy for a boy he had never met was as ersatz as powdered eggs.

Or, conversely, the android could be regarded as a highly developed, evolved version of the ersatz animal.

Indbur the Third was a peculiar combination of ersatz characteristics to all but himself.

The blind innkeeper said that the Americans could sleep in his stable that night, and he gave them soup and ersatz coffee and a little beer.

Even his reliable friends the Germans failed him in this crisis: they preferred ersatz.