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phony

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1. phony - Noun

2. phony - Adjective

3. phony - Verb

4. phony - 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

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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. Oscar Levant

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony. Anton LaVey

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it. James Inhofe

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. Vivian Stanshall

The top of the Great Pyramid [..... ] there's no capstone on the pyramid. Till the year 2000 celebrations when George Bush [Snr. ] and some of these guys put a phony one up there. See, they think they are going to have a new world order, and they probably are. Kent Hovind

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." Elie Wiesel

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