What is another word for phony?
1403 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ fˈə͡ʊni], [ fˈəʊni], [ f_ˈəʊ_n_i]Table of Contents
Similar words for phony:- affected (adjective)
- artificial (adjective)
- assumed (adjective)
- bastard (adjective)
- bogus (adjective)
- conceited (adjective)
- contrived (adjective)
- counterfeit (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- egotistical (adjective)
- fake (adjective)
- fake, false (adjective)
- fallacious (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- fictitious (adjective)
- fraudulent (adjective)
- hypocritical (adjective)
- inconceivable (adjective)
- incredible (adjective)
- insincere (adjective)
- invented (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- mala fide (adjective)
- meretricious (adjective)
- mock (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- plastic (adjective)
- pretended (adjective)
- pseudo (adjective)
- quack (adjective)
- sham (adjective)
- spurious (adjective)
- suspicious (adjective)
- synthetic (adjective)
- trumped up (adjective)
- unbelievable (adjective)
- unnatural (adjective)
- act (noun)
- charlatan (noun)
- counterfeit (noun)
- deceiver (noun)
- dissembler (noun)
- duplicate (noun)
- facade (noun)
- fake (noun)
- faker (noun)
- forgery (noun)
- fraud (noun)
- front (noun)
- hypocrite (noun)
- imitation (noun)
- imitative (noun)
- impostor (noun)
- imposture (noun)
- liar (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- phoniness (noun)
- pretension (noun)
- pretentiousness (noun)
- put-on (noun)
- quack (noun)
- spoof (noun)
- troublemaker (noun)
- copy (verb)
- counterfeit (verb)
- duplicate (verb)
- lie (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- simulate (verb)
- other synonyms
- duplicate
- imitate
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Phony:
adj.
•affected (adjective)- high falutin',
- hammiest,
- most playacting,
- hamest,
- more affected,
- shallower,
- fraudest,
- schmaltzy,
- shallow,
- more playacting,
- over-done,
- hammier,
- most put on,
- more put-on,
- over done,
- selfconscious,
- more puton,
- more faked,
- ostentatious,
- most put-on,
- hamer,
- most puton,
- self conscious,
- more counterfeited,
- frauder,
- most faked,
- most counterfeited,
- more put on.
- more misborn,
- impure,
- more ungenuine,
- mis-begotten,
- most inferior,
- un genuine,
- mis-born,
- most misborn,
- more mongrel,
- mis begotten,
- mis born,
- most ungenuine,
- most mongrel,
- un-genuine.
- not what is cracked to be,
- not what it is cracked be,
- dummiest,
- not what is cracked be,
- not what it is cracked up be,
- not what is cracked up be,
- dummier,
- not what it is cracked to be,
- not what is cracked up to be.
- over weening,
- more windbag,
- most conceity,
- swollen-headed,
- most swollen headed,
- most know-it-all,
- more swollen headed,
- overweening,
- full hot air,
- selfimportant,
- puffed up,
- swollen headed,
- most swollen-headed,
- more know it all,
- self-important,
- self important,
- most know it all,
- most loudmouth,
- most windbag,
- more conceity,
- more know-it-all,
- know it all,
- big talking,
- over-weening,
- gallest,
- most swollenheaded,
- more loudmouth,
- more swollen-headed,
- smartalecky,
- more swollenheaded,
- swollenheaded.
- most manipulated,
- un spontaneous,
- more manipulated,
- more recherche,
- more unspontaneous,
- most recherche,
- more elaborate,
- un-spontaneous,
- most unspontaneous.
- most sophistical,
- more sophistical,
- most ungrounded,
- un-founded,
- in valid,
- un-soundest,
- most reasonless,
- mis-taken,
- un reasoned,
- un-sound,
- un sounder,
- in correct,
- illogical,
- un grounded,
- un-true,
- un truest,
- un reasonable,
- un truer,
- un-grounded,
- un sound,
- more ungrounded,
- un-reasonable,
- in-valid,
- un-truest,
- un founded,
- mis taken,
- more reasonless,
- in-correct,
- un-truer,
- un-sounder,
- un true,
- un-reasoned.
- mendacious,
- crooked,
- Deluding,
- fictional,
- Truthless,
- cooked-up,
- inexact,
- casuistic,
- untruthful,
- deceitful,
- dishonest,
- Misrepresentative,
- contrary to fact,
- off the mark.
- doubledealing,
- dis honorable,
- more bamboozling,
- more swindling,
- most bamboozling,
- most swindling,
- dis-honorable.
- selfrighteous,
- smoothspoken,
- most moralistic,
- most feigning,
- left handed,
- most caviling,
- smooth spoken,
- smooth tongued,
- more caviling,
- lefthanded,
- more smooth spoken,
- more moralistic,
- most smooth spoken,
- self righteous,
- more smoothspoken,
- pietistic,
- hypo critical,
- most smooth-spoken,
- more feigning,
- jivier,
- smoothtongued,
- most dissembling,
- more smooth-spoken,
- more dissembling,
- most smoothspoken,
- hypo-critical,
- jiviest.
- in-conceivable,
- mind boggling,
- re achy,
- reachiest,
- in-supposable,
- in conceivable,
- reachier,
- un-thinkable,
- most imcomprehensible,
- wont wash,
- re achiest,
- in supposable,
- more imcomprehensible,
- un likeliest,
- re-achiest,
- un-imaginable,
- most unknowable,
- re achier,
- un-substantial,
- re-achy,
- unheardof,
- un-knowable,
- more unknowable,
- un-convincing,
- un thinkable,
- un likely,
- unheard-of,
- mindboggling,
- extra-ordinary,
- un knowable,
- un likelier,
- imcomprehensible,
- more insupposable,
- un-likelier,
- un substantial,
- more incogitable,
- un convincing,
- un-likeliest,
- un-likely,
- staggering,
- in cogitable,
- in-cogitable,
- un imaginable,
- most insupposable,
- re-achier,
- most incogitable.
- in-credible,
- out the question,
- far fetched,
- in credible,
- un-tenable,
- out question,
- incredible,
- un tenable.
- in sincerer,
- in sincere,
- perfidious,
- most dissimulating,
- in-sincerer,
- dis-simulating,
- in-sincerest,
- un-faithful,
- dis simulating,
- in-sincere,
- more dissimulating,
- in sincerest,
- un faithful.
- sophistical,
- out of line,
- supposititious,
- fraudulent,
- Double dealing,
- unknowable,
- smooth-spoken,
- reachy,
- la-di-da,
- spurious,
- not kosher,
- bastard,
- loudmouth,
- pseudonymous,
- campier,
- synthetic,
- unconforming,
- not genuine,
- rings phony,
- hyped up,
- artificial,
- suppositious,
- pseudo,
- stuck up,
- pretended,
- Insupposable,
- fallacious,
- ungrounded,
- hot stuff,
- hammy,
- Doubtable,
- smart alecky,
- galler,
- pharisaical,
- unnatural,
- not legit,
- unbelievable,
- false,
- trumped up,
- conceity,
- reasonless,
- not what it is cracked up to be,
- hypocritical,
- full of hot air,
- suspicious,
- plastic,
- moralistic,
- not real,
- Misborn,
- way off,
- sophistic,
- soft shell,
- quack,
- campy,
- unheard of,
- manmade,
- recherche,
- out of question,
- jivey,
- rings untrue,
- Crocker,
- campiest,
- fictitious,
- bogus,
- unspontaneous,
- affected,
- ersatz,
- won't wash,
- contrived,
- inconceivable,
- high falutin,
- ungenuine,
- won't fly,
- open to question,
- open to doubt,
- meretricious,
- Incogitable,
- extra ordinary.
- re-aching,
- un-common,
- un-usual,
- more doubtable,
- open doubt,
- un commonest,
- un-sure,
- out line,
- un usual,
- un-commoner,
- un common,
- re aching,
- most doubtable,
- un commoner,
- un sure.
n.
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- hollow,
- pretentious,
- sugary,
- studied,
- disingenuous.
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- honest.
- stall,
- false front,
- shuck and jive,
- shows,
- stance,
- chasers,
- chaser,
- dissimilation,
- phonies,
- feigning,
- pose.
- rip off artist,
- rip-off artists,
- pre tenders,
- pre-tenders,
- pre-tender,
- rip off artists,
- pre tender,
- ripoff artists.
- knockoff,
- spitting image,
- co-ordinate,
- duplication,
- lookalike,
- chip off old block,
- counterscript,
- germination,
- Germinations,
- recurrence,
- reciprocals,
- photo copy,
- REPRO,
- Photostats,
- Co-ordinates,
- duplications.
- trickster,
- masqueraders,
- Pharisees,
- two-timer,
- casuist,
- backsliders,
- masquerader,
- sophists,
- wolf in sheep's clothing,
- sophist,
- backslider,
- Attitudinizer,
- Dissimulator,
- playactor,
- two-face,
- lip server,
- casuists,
- smoothies,
- smoothie,
- hypocrite,
- dissemblers.
- Aperies,
- transcriptions,
- mimesis,
- transcription,
- matchings,
- Mirroring,
- apery,
- echoings,
- Paralleling.
- misleader,
- maligner,
- equivocator,
- deluders,
- promoter,
- false witness,
- Deluder,
- fablers,
- fabricator,
- prevaricator,
- Fabler,
- perjurer,
- misleaders.
- SHARPS,
- junque,
- liar,
- send up,
- horse trader,
- hoser,
- forgery,
- bluffers,
- put-on,
- fraudulence,
- va,
- spoof,
- faker,
- masquerade,
- slicks,
- send-up,
- fraud,
- pretension,
- play actor,
- act,
- hoaxer,
- Quacksalver,
- bon mot,
- hoaxers,
- shark,
- falsifications,
- duplicate,
- phoniness,
- slickers,
- hosers,
- imposters,
- workalike,
- fourflusher,
- imitation,
- Double dealer,
- imposture,
- gold brick,
- rip-off artist,
- four-flusher,
- window-dressing,
- vas,
- facade,
- SLIES,
- sendup,
- falsification,
- flimflammer,
- Hocuspocus,
- Imitating,
- take-off,
- double-dealer,
- charlatan,
- front,
- feint,
- simulators,
- troublemaker,
- coinings,
- simulator,
- shammers,
- sell,
- imposter,
- shammer,
- impostor,
- flim-flam,
- take-offs,
- ripoff artist,
- Sharks,
- chameleon.
- lyings,
- dis-ingenuousnesses,
- shifties,
- duplicitou,
- two faceds,
- deviou,
- evasives,
- untrues,
- perfidiou,
- twofaceds,
- un trues,
- two-faceds,
- dis ingenuousness,
- deceitfuls,
- dissimulatings,
- untruthfuls,
- dis-ingenuousness,
- pretentiou,
- un-trues,
- ambidextrou,
- deceptives,
- mendaciou,
- unfaithfuls,
- falses,
- dissemblings,
- disingenuou,
- faithlesses,
- backhandeds,
- dis ingenuousnesses.
v.
•copy (verb)- doeth a takeoff,
- didst like,
- goes like,
- taking leaf out book,
- doest a takeoff,
- doing take-off,
- dost take-off,
- did a takeoff,
- didst takeoff,
- did a take off,
- takes leaf out book,
- re-peat,
- doest takeoff,
- following suit,
- doth a takeoff,
- phonying,
- does like,
- taking leaf out of book,
- dost a take-off,
- dost like,
- did like,
- does take off,
- following example,
- doeth take-off,
- doth a take-off,
- follows example,
- didst a take off,
- plays a role,
- pre figuring,
- pre figured,
- doing a take off,
- doing takeoff,
- took leaf out of book,
- re peat,
- pre-figures,
- doeth like,
- re-peats,
- doest like,
- going like,
- took leaf out book,
- doeth takeoff,
- acted like,
- doing a take-off,
- doest take off,
- doeth take off,
- acts like,
- does takeoff,
- didst a take-off,
- played a role,
- acting like,
- pre-figuring,
- did takeoff,
- doth like,
- didst take off,
- do takeoff,
- doing a takeoff,
- dost a take off,
- do a take off,
- doing like,
- doth take off,
- re peats,
- dost takeoff,
- did take off,
- does a take off,
- did a take-off,
- take leaf out book,
- went like,
- does take-off,
- pre figure,
- do take off,
- dost take off,
- do take-off,
- doest take-off,
- doth a take off,
- makes like,
- takes leaf out of book,
- pre-figure,
- does a take-off,
- pre-figured,
- plays role,
- doth takeoff,
- pre figures,
- did take-off,
- doing take off,
- doth take-off,
- playing a role,
- played role,
- doest a take off,
- playing role,
- doeth a take-off,
- making like,
- made like,
- didst a takeoff,
- does a takeoff,
- doest a take-off,
- doeth a take off,
- followed example,
- dost a takeoff,
- phonied,
- didst take-off.
- pre tends,
- statted,
- phonied up,
- mimeoing,
- de fraud,
- dittoing,
- pre-tending,
- pre-tends,
- de frauds,
- carboned,
- de-frauds,
- de-fraud,
- phonies up,
- pre tending,
- de-ludes,
- mimeos,
- carboning,
- phonying up,
- de ludes,
- circulates bad money,
- statting,
- made money,
- de-lude,
- de lude,
- pre tend,
- circulated bad money,
- circulating bad money.
- re doubles,
- photo-stated,
- re-duplicate,
- dost again,
- re duplicates,
- re-plicated,
- re-plicating,
- re-duplicated,
- re produced,
- dualizing,
- re-double,
- re plicating,
- re-work,
- re-does,
- photo copying,
- re done,
- photo-copied,
- re-doing,
- re-producing,
- re work,
- re-doubling,
- made twofold,
- re-make,
- re plicates,
- re-worked,
- re doubling,
- taking as,
- makes replica,
- doth again,
- re-produce,
- doeth again,
- made replica,
- making twofold,
- takes as,
- re produces,
- re-duplicating,
- re-doubled,
- re-produces,
- photo-copying,
- re-works,
- does again,
- re does,
- re-making,
- re worked,
- re making,
- re doubled,
- reproes,
- re-working,
- reproed,
- re-makes,
- re working,
- re double,
- took as,
- re-plicates,
- photo-stating,
- multi-plying,
- taking off as,
- photo stated,
- photo stating,
- re duplicate,
- re-done,
- re makes,
- takes off as,
- photostated,
- re made,
- re duplicated,
- re-duplicates,
- dualizes,
- re duplicating,
- re make,
- re plicate,
- dualized,
- re-wrought,
- reproing,
- didst again,
- re-doubles,
- re-made,
- re wrought,
- re-did,
- multi-plied,
- photo copied,
- makes twofold,
- took off as,
- doest again,
- re did,
- re plicated,
- mimeoed,
- re produce,
- re producing,
- re-plicate,
- re works,
- making replica,
- multi plying,
- re doing,
- photostating,
- re-produced.
- mis lead,
- putting front,
- strung along,
- mis instructed,
- mis-instruct,
- misguides,
- bore false witness,
- mis-informs,
- put front,
- mis speak,
- mis instructing,
- be guiles,
- were untruthful,
- dis-simulates,
- mis stating,
- misinstructs,
- breaking promise,
- am untruthful,
- put up front,
- over-draw,
- over drawing,
- pro moting,
- mis state,
- in-venting,
- mis-guide,
- be-guile,
- in-vents,
- wast untruthful,
- mis stated,
- mis speaks,
- over-drawn,
- in vents,
- softsoap,
- mis representing,
- mis instructs,
- pro-moting,
- mis-instructing,
- mis-inform,
- mis-speak,
- dis-torts,
- putting a front,
- mis spoke,
- be-guiles,
- mis-informing,
- breaks promise,
- mis-stating,
- over draw,
- dis tort,
- brake promise,
- over drawn,
- dis simulates,
- are untruthful,
- mis-spoke,
- mis-instructed,
- misinstructing,
- soft-soaps,
- bears false witness,
- mis-guides,
- mis-speaking,
- mis states,
- puts a front,
- soft soaping,
- be guile,
- mis-represent,
- mis inform,
- dis simulate,
- over-drawing,
- mis-informed,
- mis-guiding,
- mis-instructs,
- is untruthful,
- mis-represented,
- art untruthful,
- mis represents,
- mis guiding,
- misspoke,
- BSES,
- being untruthful,
- pro-motes,
- over-drew,
- puts front,
- softsoaps,
- mis speaking,
- mis-speaks,
- in venting,
- wert untruthful,
- mis guides,
- softsoaped,
- mis spoken,
- dis torts,
- mis-state,
- mis-represents,
- mis-lead,
- mis informed,
- mis-states,
- mis-leads,
- mis-guided,
- putting up front,
- in vent,
- BSED,
- dis-tort,
- put a front,
- bsing,
- mis-stated,
- mis represented,
- mis informing,
- putting up a front,
- over drew,
- mis informs,
- mis represent,
- in-vent,
- mis-spoken,
- puts up a front,
- beared false witness,
- soft soaped,
- softsoaping,
- bare false witness,
- over draws,
- Overdrew,
- mis-representing,
- overdraws,
- dis-simulate,
- mis guide,
- puts up front,
- over-draws,
- mis instruct,
- broke promise,
- pro-mote.
Other synonyms:
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- tartuffe,
- rascal,
- Pecksniffian.
- reduplicating,
- doing again,
- do a takeoff,
- photostatted,
- dualize,
- Replicated,
- take as,
- remakes,
- make replica,
- manifolds,
- photostatting,
- reduplicate,
- Manifolded,
- remaking,
- did again,
- take off as,
- make twofold,
- do again,
- remake,
- reduplicates,
- reduplicated,
- Manifolding.
- copy.
- misguide,
- phony up,
- Overdrawing,
- simulate,
- Pirating,
- making money,
- bearing false witness,
- lay,
- Overdrawn,
- circulate bad money,
- forswear,
- act like,
- play a role,
- mimeo,
- bear false witness,
- Misinstruct,
- Snowing,
- follow example,
- be untruthful,
- Incarnated,
- embodies,
- overdraw,
- modelling,
- misstate,
- go like,
- Cribbing,
- misspeaks,
- Typified,
- lie,
- do a take-off,
- Misguiding,
- STAT,
- soft-soap,
- gloss over,
- misinstructed,
- Cribbed,
- incarnates,
- glossed over,
- break promise,
- make money,
- misspeaking,
- Perjured,
- Snowed,
- pirate,
- put on act,
- took off,
- dittoed,
- steal,
- make like,
- Misspeak,
- was untruthful,
- play role,
- Bulled,
- bulling,
- Pirated,
- go back on,
- Burlesqued,
- take leaf out of book,
- Mocked,
- Burlesquing,
- Incarnating,
- soft-soaped,
- lied,
- playact,
- misinformed,
- soft-soaping,
- echoes,
- put up a front,
- misspoken,
- do like,
- parrot,
- STATS,
- Emulated.
- juggler,
- metaphor,
- provisional,
- substitute,
- Echoer,
- dissemble,
- analogy,
- mannered,
- snuffler,
- jive,
- Affecter,
- replacement,
- unreal,
- imitate,
- poseur,
- poll parrot,
- Formalist,
- infer,
- pretense,
- likeness,
- favoring,
- copied,
- junky,
- shoddy,
- plea,
- portrait,
- misbegotten,
- sheep,
- illusory,
- pinch,
- misnamed,
- Colorable,
- junk,
- suggestive of,
- twisted,
- man of straw,
- pretender,
- equal,
- Ectype,
- swindler,
- behind ones back,
- invent,
- gaudy,
- like,
- reserve,
- caricature,
- factitious,
- Flam,
- resemblance,
- perform,
- vindication,
- pinchbeck,
- subterfuge,
- fabricate,
- hoax,
- ringer,
- smacking of,
- guess,
- illegitimate,
- exchange,
- embroidered,
- incorrect,
- role player,
- unctuous,
- utility,
- substitution,
- bluff,
- ripoff,
- phoney,
- homogeneous,
- erroneous,
- suppose,
- dummy,
- Titivated,
- Saltimbanco,
- double,
- imitator,
- left-handed,
- bastardly,
- sniveler,
- personnel,
- duplicity,
- monkey,
- Whited Sepulchre,
- manipulate,
- pastiche,
- cover,
- construct,
- grandiosity,
- fair copy,
- tentative,
- execute,
- makeshift,
- man-made,
- mimic,
- perverted,
- pseud,
- Subdititious,
- icon,
- Substituent,
- Pecksniff,
- mealy,
- ben trovato,
- excuse,
- tartufe,
- Mannerist,
- represent,
- agent,
- swindle,
- concoct,
- pretext,
- succedaneum,
- distorted,
- mimer,
- copier,
- mealymouthed,
- vicar,
- similar,
- fabulous,
- clinquant,
- mocker,
- copyist,
- picture,
- token,
- blagueur,
- hollow man,
- queer,
- conformist,
- surreptitious,
- feign,
- DO,
- quasi,
- sub,
- relief,
- stopgap,
- bluffer,
- cuckoo,
- simulated,
- something like,
- deceit,
- faux,
- deputy,
- performer,
- Counterfeited,
- embellished,
- surrogate,
- allegation,
- semblance,
- ape,
- temporary,
- inaccurate,
- apocryphal,
- put on,
- rip off,
- frame-up,
- phony-baloney,
- wrong,
- canter,
- paste,
- sign,
- simulacrum,
- mockingbird,
- backup,
- surmise,
- mime,
- warped,
- similitude,
- change,
- echo,
- spare,
- identical,
- alike,
- stand-in,
- unfounded,
- fictive,
- contrive,
- alternate,
- suspect,
- Mimicked,
- Resembling,
- changeling,
- colored,
- SPARES,
- inauthentic,
- whited sepulcher,
- gloss,
- surface,
- cheater,
- make-believe,
- poser,
- Pasticcio,
- proxy,
- ghost writer,
- Pietist,
- straw man,
- color,
- reserves,
- tin,
- faked,
- utility player,
- borrow,
- comparison,
- fair-weather friend,
- equivalent,
- gyp,
- commit,
- Advocation,
- Aped,
- certified copy,
- falsify,
- following,
- symbol,
- brummagem,
- untrue,
- garbled,
- believe,
- locum tenens,
- dissimulating,
- exaggerate,
- guise,
- mimicker,
- soi-disant,
- Imitated,
- superseder,
- fill-in,
- unauthentic,
- so-called,
- Falsified,
- alternative,
- slicker,
- supplanter,
- image,
- copycat,
- forced,
- charmer,
- plagiarist,
- paper-hanger,
- pretend,
- hokey,
- ghost,
- self-styled,
- vice president,
- ghostwriter,
- malingerer,
- synecdoche,
- Polly,
- false friend,
- not unlike,
- plagiarized,
- inharmonious,
- representation,
- secondary,
- Elusory,
- ironical,
- exterior,
- understudy,
- metonymy,
- put-up job,
- fabricated,
- vice-regent,
- cheap,
- representative,
- vicarious,
- actor,
- deception.
Paraphrases for Phony:
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Equivalence
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Independent
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Adjective
spurious, fraudulent, fictitious, untrue, incorrect, bullshit, wrong, inaccurate, incidental, faux, erroneous, lame, misleading.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
disingenuous, counterfeit.
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Noun, singular or mass
hypocrite, hypocritical, counterfeit, scythe.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Phony:
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adj.
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Other antonyms:
forthright, open, unstudied, direct, echt, unfeigned, actual, impromptu, extemporaneous, heartfelt, instinctive, uncontrived, unforced, bona fide, candid, unprompted, plain, unconscious, effortless, spontaneous, smooth, straightforward, valid, impulsive, unrehearsed, easy, heart-to-heart, Undesigning, frank, natural.
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