PHONEY DEFINITIONS - 6 definitions found
phoney adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard] n 1: 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 [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender] Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary phoney also phony (phoneys) 1. If you describe something as phoney, you disapprove of it because it is false rather than genuine. (INFORMAL) He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute... ADJ [disapproval] 2. If you say that someone is phoney, you disapprove of them because they are pretending to be someone that they are not in order to deceive people. (INFORMAL) He looks totally phoney to me. ADJ [disapproval] • Phoney is also a noun. 'He's false, a phoney,' Harry muttered. N-COUNT English Explanatory Dictionary phoney ˈfəunɪ adj. & n. (also phony) colloq. --adj. (phonier, phoniest) 1 sham; counterfeit. 2 fictitious; fraudulent. --n. (pl. -eys or -ies) a phoney person or thing. øøphonily adv. phoniness n. [20th c.: orig. unkn.] English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) phoney ˈfəunɪ adj. 1 unreal, fake, synthetic, artificial, factitious, false, fraudulent, imitation, bogus, spurious, counterfeit, mock, ersatz, paste, trumped up; sham, pretended, insincere, hypocritical, dissimulating, deceitful, dishonest; US also phony, Colloq pseudo or Brit pseud: They were caught trying to collect insurance on the theft of a string of phoney pearls. Every time she wanted something, she'd turn on the phoney charm. --n. 2 fake, fraud, imitation, counterfeit, forgery, hoax, sham, US also phony: The diamond she's wearing is a phoney. 3 trickster, faker, humbug, impostor, pretender, charlatan, mountebank, double-dealer, counterfeiter, quack, deceiver, US also phony, Colloq Brit pseud, Slang US paper-hanger: Madame Tatiana claims to be able to communicate with the dead, but I think she's a phoney. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 35 Moby Thesaurus words for "phoney": 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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