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Phony   /fˈoʊni/   Listen
Phony

adjective
(compar. phonier; superl. phoniest)  (Also spelled phoney)
1.
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance.  Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney.






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"Phony" Quotes from Famous Books



... man who knows your record, in the next place. And on the next count, as the man who 's wise to those phony bills of lading of yours, and those doped-up clearance papers, and those cases of carbines you 've got down your hold labeled bridge equipment, and that nitro and giant-caps, and that hundred thousand rounds of smokeless you 're running ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer

... a bully picture of our anxious friend laying out Harrison. Nothing phony about that, Threewit. Won't go in this reel, but she'll make a humdinger in some other. Say, didn't Harrison hit the dust fine! Funny you lads can't ever pull off a fall ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine



Words linked to "Phony" :   beguiler, imitative, charmer, Tartufe, smoothie, slicker, trickster, Tartuffe, deceiver, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre, smoothy, cheater, sweet talker, cheat, counterfeit



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