Phoney

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Variant of phony.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. 1900 Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
  • n. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
  • n. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; counterfeit; fake.
  • adj. pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people.
  • n. something or someone that is phony.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • adj. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
  • Equivalent
    Variant
    phony   
    Form
    Phoney War    phoney up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    insincere    hypocritical    fake    bogus    counterfeit    pretender    dissembler   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berlusconi    Bologna    Castiglione    Marconi    Maroni    Moroni    Mulroney    Shoshone    Sony    Toni   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts