phony
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈfoʊni/
phony (comparative phonier, superlative phoniest)
- (informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
- A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
- (fraudulent) bogus, counterfeit, fake
- See also Thesaurus:fake
- French: frauduleux, contrefait, falsifié, faux, à la noix, à la gomme
- German: gefälscht, , verlogen
- Italian: falso, fasullo
- Portuguese: falso, de araque
- Russian: фальши́вый
- Spanish: falso
phony (plural phonies)
- (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.
- (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
- He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.
- (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
- 2013, John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual (page 131)
- One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.
- 2013, John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual (page 131)
- (faker) dissembler, pretender, fake, faker
- French: usurpateur, usurpatrice, faux-nez, faussaire
- German: Hochstapler
- Italian: impostore
- Russian: прики́дчик
- Spanish: fingidor
- French: mystificateur, guignol, faux prophète
- Spanish: falso
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