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pho·ny

also pho·ney(fō′nē)adj.pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est
1. Not genuine or real; sham or counterfeit: a phony credit card; a phony beard.
2. Spurious, deceptive, or false: a phony excuse.
3. Fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest: a phony expert in investing.
n.pl.pho·nies also pho·neys
2. Something that is not genuine; a fake.
[Alteration of fawney, gilt brass ring used by swindlers, from Irish Gaelic fáinne, ring, from Old Irish.]
pho′ni·ness n.
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phony

(ˈfəʊnɪ)
adj, n-nieror-niest, pl-nies
ˈphoninessn
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pho•ny

or pho•ney

(ˈfoʊ ni)
adj. -ni•er, -ni•est,adj.
2. false or deceiving: a phony excuse.
n.
4. something phony; a counterfeit or fake.
v.t.
6. to falsify (often fol. by up): to phony up a document.

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[1895–1900; perhaps alter. and resp. of fawney (slang) finger ring (< Irish fáinne), taken to mean “false” in the phrase fawney rig a confidence game in which a brass ring is sold as a gold one]
pho′ni•ness,n.

-phony

a combining form used in the formation of abstract nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phone: telephony.
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Noun1.phony - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender
beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker - someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
Tartufe, Tartuffe - a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre - a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
Adj.1.phony - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; 'counterfeit emotion'; 'counterfeit money'; 'counterfeit works of art'; 'a counterfeit prince'

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phony

also phoney
adjective1. Fraudulently or deceptively imitative:
bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, fraudulent, sham, spurious, suppositious, supposititious.
2. Not genuine or sincere:
affected, artificial, feigned, insincere, pretended.
3. Of or practicing hypocrisy:
hypocritical, Pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, two-faced.
noun
1. A fraudulent imitation:
2. One who fakes:
charlatan, fake, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, pretender, quack.
3. A person who practices hypocrisy:
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phon(e)y

(ˈfəuni) Mac adjective
not genuine; fake; false. a phoney French accent. vals, nagemaak كاذِب، مُزّيَّف، مُصْطَنَع фалшив falso falešný falsch falsk; påtaget ψεύτικοςfalso, fingido võlts ساختگی؛ قلابی väärä fauxמזויף कृत्रिम lažan, krivotvoren hamis palsu óekta falso, finto にせの 허위의 apsimestinis, netikras neīsts; viltots dibuat-buat onecht, nepfalsk, uekte udawany, lipny تصنعي، ساختګي falso pretins ложный, поддельный falošný ponarejen lažni falsk, dum ซึ่งหลอกลวง sahte, yapmacık 假的 фальшивий; дутий نقلي، غير حقيقي giả mạo 假的
noun
a person who is not what he pretends to be. He's not a real doctor – he's a phoney. bedrieër إنْسان أو شَيء مُزَيَّف лицемер impostor šarlatán der/die Schwindler(in) svindler; fupmager απατεώναςfarsante, impostor ðarlatan آدم متظاهر huijari charlatanרמאי नकली folirant szélhámos gadungan loddari impostore インチキ 사기꾼 apsimetėlis krāpnieks; viltnieks tipu bedriegerbløffmaker, svindleroszust ښكارونكى سړى impostor şarlatan обманщик; шарлатан šarlatán blefer folirant bluff นักต้มตุ๋น sahtekâr 假冒者，騙子 шахрай, шарлатан مکوٹھے والا kẻ giả mạo 假冒者，骗子
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