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Phony   Listen
adjective
phony  adj.  (compar. phonier; superl. phoniest)  (Also spelled phoney)  
1.
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.
2.
Pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; of people.





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"Phony" Quotes from Famous Books



... you are," muttered the young man. "There's something that looks mighty phony about this, but I haven't got you ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... critically. "But you'll never do it in them clothes. You want to get light tan shoes and a black suit and a straw hat with a colored band, and talk a good deal about Pittsburg and freight differentials, and drink sherry for breakfast in order to work off phony stuff like that." ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry


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


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