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.
  •artificial (adjective)
  • most falsie,
  • most fabricated,
  • un-real.
  •assumed (adjective)
  • makebelieve,
  • madeup,
  • more imitation,
  • most imitation.
  •bastard (adjective)
  • 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.
  •bogus (adjective)
  • 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.
  •conceited (adjective)
  • 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.
  •contrived (adjective)
  • most manipulated,
  • un spontaneous,
  • more manipulated,
  • more recherche,
  • more unspontaneous,
  • most recherche,
  • more elaborate,
  • un-spontaneous,
  • most unspontaneous.
  •counterfeit (adjective)
  • more hollywood,
  • two faced,
  • mis leading,
  • mis-leading,
  • wont fly,
  • plantest,
  • crockest,
  • twofaced.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • snide,
  • seeming,
  • Astucious,
  • Imposturous.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  •egotistical (adjective)
  • conceited.
  •fake (adjective)
  • most concocted,
  • more concocted,
  • fakest,
  • more reproduction,
  • more fabricated,
  • most reproduction.
  •fake, false (adjective)
  • forged,
  • assumed,
  • sham,
  • trick.
  •fallacious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •false (adjective)
  • mendacious,
  • crooked,
  • Deluding,
  • fictional,
  • Truthless,
  • cooked-up,
  • inexact,
  • casuistic,
  • untruthful,
  • deceitful,
  • dishonest,
  • Misrepresentative,
  • contrary to fact,
  • off the mark.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • trumped-up,
  • invented,
  • figmental.
  •fraudulent (adjective)
  • doubledealing,
  • dis honorable,
  • more bamboozling,
  • more swindling,
  • most bamboozling,
  • most swindling,
  • dis-honorable.
  •hypocritical (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inconceivable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •incredible (adjective)
  • in-credible,
  • out the question,
  • far fetched,
  • in credible,
  • un-tenable,
  • out question,
  • incredible,
  • un tenable.
  •insincere (adjective)
  • 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.
  •invented (adjective)
  • in vented,
  • in-vented.
  •la-di-da (adjective)
  • la di da.
  •mala fide (adjective)
  • mala fide.
  •meretricious (adjective)
  • more tinsel,
  • tinsel,
  • most tinsel.
  •mock (adjective)
  • more mimic,
  • mock,
  • most mimic.
  •plastic (adjective)
  • more cast,
  • most cast.
  •pretended (adjective)
  • masked,
  • Impostrous.
  •pseudo (adjective)
  • more pirate,
  • most pirate.
  •quack (adjective)
  • un principled,
  • un-principled.
  •sham (adjective)
  • more plaster,
  • most plaster.
  •spurious (adjective)
  • most unauthentic,
  • more unauthentic,
  • un authentic,
  • un-authentic.
  •suspicious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •synthetic (adjective)
  • more constructed,
  • most constructed.
  •trumped up (adjective)
  • de-vised,
  • made up,
  • most devised,
  • more devised,
  • de vised.
  •unbelievable (adjective)
  • past belief,
  • full of holes,
  • beyond belief,
  • for the birds,
  • lamebrained,
  • won't hold water,
  • cockamamie.
  •unnatural (adjective)
  • super-natural,
  • super natural,
  • more staged,
  • more unconforming,
  • un conforming,
  • un-cannier,
  • un-canniest,
  • most staged,
  • un accountable,
  • most unconforming,
  • un-natural,
  • un-conforming,
  • un canniest,
  • un canny,
  • un natural,
  • un cannier.

• n.

  •
  • hollow,
  • pretentious,
  • sugary,
  • studied,
  • disingenuous.
  •
  • honest.
  •act (noun)
  • stall,
  • false front,
  • shuck and jive,
  • shows,
  • stance,
  • chasers,
  • chaser,
  • dissimilation,
  • phonies,
  • feigning,
  • pose.
  •charlatan (noun)
  • rip off artist,
  • rip-off artists,
  • pre tenders,
  • pre-tenders,
  • pre-tender,
  • rip off artists,
  • pre tender,
  • ripoff artists.
  •counterfeit (noun)
  • pseudi,
  • boguses,
  • re production,
  • re productions,
  • re-production,
  • re-productions,
  • junques.
  •deceiver (noun)
  • counterfeiter,
  • fake,
  • con artist,
  • con man,
  • Defrauder,
  • criminal,
  • cheat,
  • forger,
  • deceiver.
  •dissembler (noun)
  • dissembler.
  •duplicate (noun)
  • knockoff,
  • spitting image,
  • co-ordinate,
  • duplication,
  • lookalike,
  • chip off old block,
  • counterscript,
  • germination,
  • Germinations,
  • recurrence,
  • reciprocals,
  • photo copy,
  • REPRO,
  • Photostats,
  • Co-ordinates,
  • duplications.
  •facade (noun)
  • dis guises,
  • dis guise,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis-guises.
  •fake (noun)
  • four flushers,
  • four-flushers,
  • gold bricks,
  • fourflushers,
  • four flusher.
  •faker (noun)
  • coiner,
  • coiners.
  •forgery (noun)
  • fakings,
  • fraudulences,
  • imitatings,
  • workalikes.
  •fraud (noun)
  • horse traders,
  • double-dealers,
  • double dealers,
  • doubledealers,
  • doubledealer,
  • play actors.
  •front (noun)
  • cover up,
  • coverup.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • 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.
  •imitation (noun)
  • Aperies,
  • transcriptions,
  • mimesis,
  • transcription,
  • matchings,
  • Mirroring,
  • apery,
  • echoings,
  • Paralleling.
  •imitative (noun)
  • imitative.
  •impostor (noun)
  • impersonator,
  • beguiler,
  • pettifogger,
  • scorner,
  • mockers,
  • beguilers,
  • empiric.
  •imposture (noun)
  • hocus pocus.
  •liar (noun)
  • misleader,
  • maligner,
  • equivocator,
  • deluders,
  • promoter,
  • false witness,
  • Deluder,
  • fablers,
  • fabricator,
  • prevaricator,
  • Fabler,
  • perjurer,
  • misleaders.
  •phoniness (noun)
  • 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.
  •pretension (noun)
  • showboat,
  • hypocrisy,
  • showiness,
  • showboats.
  •pretentiousness (noun)
  • pompousness,
  • grandioseness.
  •put-on (noun)
  • window-dressings,
  • puton,
  • windowdressings.
  •quack (noun)
  • bunco artist,
  • quacksalvers,
  • bunco artists,
  • flimflammers.
  •spoof (noun)
  • sendups,
  • flim flam,
  • flim flams,
  • send-ups,
  • send ups,
  • take offs,
  • bons mots,
  • flim-flams.
  •troublemaker (noun)
  • bad actor,
  • recreants,
  • mischiefmaker.

• 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.
  •counterfeit (verb)
  • 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.
  •duplicate (verb)
  • 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.
  •lie (verb)
  • 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.
  •simulate (verb)
  • put act,
  • dis-guising,
  • dis guising,
  • glossing over,
  • glosses over,
  • put an act.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tartuffe,
  • rascal,
  • Pecksniffian.
  •
  • mountebank,
  • pharisee,
  • humbug,
  • insincere,
  • two-faced,
  • pharisaic,
  • feigned,
  • sanctimonious.
  •duplicate
  • 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.
  •imitate
  • copy.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    phoney, bogus.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    spurious, fraudulent, fictitious, untrue, incorrect, bullshit, wrong, inaccurate, incidental, faux, erroneous, lame, misleading.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    wrong, liar, forgery.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disingenuous, counterfeit.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    hypocrite, hypocritical, counterfeit, scythe.

Antonyms for Phony:

• adj.

  • fake, false
    genuine, real, true, sincere, authentic.
  • 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.

Homophones for Phony:

• phoney.