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adjective

phony adj. (compar. phonier; superl. phoniest) (Also spelled phoney)

Imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; counterfeit; fake; as, a phony diamond; a phony hundred-dollar bill.

Synonyms: phoney, bogus, counterfeit, fake.

Pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; of people.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Phony" Quotes from Famous Books

... minute I heard your name I placed you for the smooth party that tried to unload a lot of that phony Radio stock on Mrs. Benny Sherwood. Wanted to euchre her out of the twenty thousand life insurance she got when Benny took the booze count last winter, eh? Well, it happens she's a friend of Mrs. McCabe, and it was through me your little scheme ...

— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford

Words linked to "Phony" : charmer, cheat, whited sepulcher, counterfeit, trickster, smoothy, Tartuffe, dissimulator, dissembler, sweet talker, fake, whited sepulchre, pretender, phoney, Tartufe, slicker, smoothie, beguiler, deceiver, hypocrite, bogus, bastard