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    PHONY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected forms: phonier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, phoniest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motivesplay

    Synonyms:

    dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("phony" is a kind of...):

    beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phony"):

    charmer; smoothie; smoothy; sweet talker (someone with an assured and ingratiating manner)

    Tartufe; Tartuffe (a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere))

    whited sepulcher; whited sepulchre (a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous)

    Derivation:

    phony (fraudulent; having a misleading appearance)

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Fraudulent; having a misleading appearanceplay

    Synonyms:

    bastard; bogus; fake; phoney; phony

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    counterfeit; imitative (not genuine; imitating something superior)

    Derivation:

    phony (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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