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pho·ney

(fō′nē)

adj. & n.

Variant of phony.

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phoney

(ˈfəʊnɪ) or

phony

adj, -nier or -niest

1. not genuine; fake

2. (of a person) insincere or pretentious

n, pl -neys or -nies

3. an insincere or pretentious person

4. something that is not genuine; a fake

[C20: origin uncertain]

ˈphoneyness, ˈphoniness n

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Noun	1.	phoney - 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, phony, 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.	phoney - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance bastard, bogus, fake, phony counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

phoney

(Informal)

adjective

1. fake, affected, assumed, trick, put-on, false, forged, imitation, sham, pseudo (informal), counterfeit, feigned, spurious He used a phoney accent.
fake real, original, genuine, authentic, sincere, unaffected, bona fide, dinkum (Austral & N.Z. informal), unfeigned, unassumed

2. bogus, false, fake, pseudo (informal), ersatz phoney `experts'

noun

1. faker, fraud, fake, pretender, humbug, impostor, pseud (informal) He was a liar, a cheat, and a phoney.

2. fake, sham, forgery, counterfeit This passport is a phoney.

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phony

also phoney
adjective

1. 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:

counterfeit, fake, forgery, sham.

2. One who fakes:

charlatan, fake, faker, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, pretender, quack.

3. A person who practices hypocrisy:

hypocrite, pharisee, tartuffe.

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phoney

phony (US also) [ˈfəʊnɪ]

A. ADJ [moustache] → falso, postizo; [name, document, smile] → falso; [accent] → fingido
there's sth phoney about it → esto huele a camelo
the phoney war (1939) → la guerra ilusoria

B. N (phoneys (pl)) (= person) → farsante mf; (= thing) → falsificación f

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