phoney

Speech parts

1. phoney - Noun

2. phoney - Adjective

3. phoney - Verb

4. phoney - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pretender fake bogus hypocrite phony dissembler dissimulator pharisee ponce faker crooked unreal canter charlatan humbug
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Antonyms

amen right natural total certain complete
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Hypernyms

cheat cheater deceiver slicker beguiler trickster

Hyponyms

charmer smoothie tartuffe smoothy tartufe sweet talker

Phrases with the word

be phoney

Examples

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare. Ethan Hawke

Hippies are so phoney and fake. George Harrison

The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one! Donald Trump

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little. John Fowles

A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking. Nelson Algren

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away. Dolly Parton

Close letter words and terms

phoneward phonewise phoneword phoney up Phoney War phoney-baloney