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Phony

Phony Meaning & Definition
Phony Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Phony?

[n] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold
[adj] fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Synonyms | Synonyms for Phony: bastard | bogus | counterfeit | dissembler | fake | hypocrite | imitative | phoney | phoney | pretender

Related Terms | Find terms related to Phony: actor | affected | affecter | agent | alike | alternate | alternative | analogy | ape | aped | apocryphal | artificial | assumed | backup | bastard | blagueur | bluff | bluffer | bogus | brummagem | canter | certified copy | change | changeling | charlatan | cheat | clinquant | colorable | colored | comparison | conformist | consimilar | copied | copier | copy | copycat | copyist | counterfeit | counterfeited | counterfeiter | cuckoo | deceiver | deputy | dissembler | dissimulator | distorted | double | dressed up | dummy | echo | echoer | echoist | ectype | embellished | embroidered | equal | equivalent | ersatz | exchange | factitious | fair copy | fair-weather friend | faithful copy | fake | faked | fakement | faker | false | false friend | falsified | favoring | feigned | fictitious | fictive | fill-in | following | forged | forger | forgery | fourflusher | frame-up | fraud | garbled | ghost | ghostwriter | hoax | hokey | hollow man | homogeneous | humbug | hypocrite | hypocritical | icon | identical | illegitimate | image | imitated | imitation | imitator | impersonator | impostor | Joseph Surface | junk | junky | like | likeness | locum tenens | make-believe | makeshift | malingerer | man of straw | man-made | mannerist | mealymouth | metaphor | metonymy | mime | mimer | mimic | mimicked | mimicker | mock | mocker | mockingbird | monkey | mountebank | nearly reproduced | next best thing | not unlike | paper tiger | parrot | paste | pasticcio | pastiche | Pecksniff | performer | personnel | perverted | pharisee | picture | pinch | pinch hitter | pinchbeck | plagiarist | plagiarized | playactor | poll-parrot | polly | polly-parrot | portrait | poser | poseur | pretended | pretender | provisional | proxy | pseudo | put-on | put-up job | quack | quacksalver | quackster | quasi | queer | relief | replacement | representation | representative | resemblance | resembling | reserve | reserves | ringer | rip-off | saltimbanco | sanctimonious fraud | second string | secondary | self-styled | semblance | sham | shammer | sheep | shoddy | sign | similar | similitude | simulacrum | simulated | simulator | smacking of | snide | snuffler | so-called | soi-disant | something like | spare | spares | spoof | spurious | stand-in | stopgap | straw man | sub | substituent | substitute | substitution | succedaneum | suggestive of | summer soldier | superseder | supplanter | supposititious | surrogate | swindle | symbol | synecdoche | synthetic | Tartuffe | temporary | tentative | third string | tin | tinsel | titivated | token | twisted | unauthentic | understudy | ungenuine | uniform with | unnatural | unreal | utility | utility player | vicar | vicarious | vice-president | vice-regent | warped | whited sepulcher

See Also | beguiler | charmer | cheat | cheater | deceiver | slicker | smoothie | smoothy | sweet talker | Tartufe | Tartuffe | trickster | whited sepulcher | whited sepulchre

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