
Meaning of PHONEY
| Pronunciation: | | fownee
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- [n] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
- [adj] fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
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| | Synonyms: | | bastard, bogus, counterfeit, dissembler, fake, hypocrite, imitative, phony, phony, pretender |
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| | See Also: | | beguiler, charmer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, Tartufe, Tartuffe, trickster, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre | |
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| | Related Terms: | | artificial, bogus, charlatan, counterfeit, counterfeiter, deceitful, deceiver, dishonest, double-dealer, ersatz, factitious, fake, faker, false, forgery, fraud, fraudulent, hoax, humbug, hypocritical, imitation, impostor, insincere, mock, mountebank, paste, phony, pretended, pretender, quack, sham, spurious, synthetic, trickster, unreal |
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