confection
He was popular because he did not seem like the usual kind of confected perfect politician.
Every week seems to bring a new wave of confected indignation about something.
A crisis, whether real or confected, destabilizes everything.
It became common to hear white Australians being described as Anglo-Celtic, a confected identity that was not universally accepted as a term.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Natural and artificial
anti-natural
artificial
artificiality
artificially
biodynamic
false
freshness
God-given
imitation
inauthentic
pure
rawness
refined
simulated
synthetic
unnatural
unnaturally
unposed
unprocessed
untamed