Synonyms for Phony:

• adj.

  •deceptive (adjective)
  • snide.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  •fake, false (adjective)
  • forged,
  • assumed,
  • sham,
  • trick.
  •false (adjective)
  • fictional,
  • untruthful,
  • deceitful,
  • dishonest,
  • Truthless,
  • mendacious,
  • crooked,
  • Deluding.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • invented.
  •meretricious (adjective)
  • tinsel.

• n.

  •
  • hollow.
  •deceiver (noun)
  • counterfeiter,
  • fake,
  • con artist,
  • con man,
  • Defrauder,
  • criminal,
  • cheat,
  • forger,
  • deceiver.
  •hypocrite (noun)
  • Dissimulator,
  • hypocrite,
  • dissembler,
  • trickster,
  • playactor,
  • lip server.
  •impostor (noun)
  • impersonator.
  •liar (noun)
  • prevaricator.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tartuffe,
  • rascal,
  • Pecksniffian.
  •
  • mountebank,
  • pharisee,
  • humbug,
  • insincere,
  • two-faced,
  • pharisaic,
  • feigned,
  • sanctimonious.
  •imitate
  • copy.
  •Other relevant words:
  • execute,
  • actor,
  • embroidered,
  • commit,
  • pretender,
  • pinch,
  • equal,
  • agent,
  • erroneous,
  • vindication,
  • token,
  • ripoff,
  • cover,
  • mannered,
  • metaphor,
  • mimer,
  • soi-disant,
  • rip off,
  • quasi,
  • mala fide,
  • Colorable,
  • not unlike,
  • vice-regent,
  • paste,
  • deceit,
  • brummagem,
  • dummy,
  • dissimulating,
  • Saltimbanco,
  • mocker,
  • pinchbeck,
  • manipulate,
  • subterfuge,
  • symbol,
  • Counterfeited,
  • dissemble,
  • Echoer,
  • grandiosity,
  • pretense,
  • fill-in,
  • mock,
  • guess,
  • plagiarized,
  • stand-in,
  • metonymy,
  • echo,
  • substitution,
  • invent,
  • performer,
  • changeling,
  • mime,
  • plagiarist,
  • analogy,
  • warped,
  • Ectype,
  • clinquant,
  • reserve,
  • pastiche,
  • copied,
  • mealymouthed,
  • vicarious,
  • straw man,
  • guise,
  • secondary,
  • copycat,
  • falsify,
  • sheep,
  • copier,
  • picture,
  • imitate,
  • understudy,
  • duplicity,
  • proxy,
  • mockingbird,
  • behind ones back,
  • double,
  • misnamed,
  • Advocation,
  • distorted,
  • cheater,
  • Pecksniff,
  • bastardly,
  • ghost writer,
  • frame-up,
  • ben trovato,
  • inauthentic,
  • exterior,
  • pretend,
  • charmer,
  • fabricated,
  • Affecter,
  • borrow,
  • alike,
  • mimic,
  • vice president,
  • ringer,
  • alternate,
  • like,
  • queer,
  • Falsified,
  • slicker,
  • swindle,
  • malingerer,
  • deception,
  • incredible,
  • ironical,
  • self-styled,
  • inharmonious,
  • equivalent,
  • Pietist,
  • imitator,
  • following,
  • apocryphal,
  • embellished,
  • locum tenens,
  • superseder,
  • shoddy,
  • poseur,
  • juggler,
  • representation,
  • conformist,
  • garbled,
  • canter,
  • factitious,
  • gyp,
  • vicar,
  • surface,
  • left-handed,
  • cuckoo,
  • junky,
  • simulacrum,
  • Whited Sepulchre,
  • tartufe,
  • semblance,
  • colored,
  • faked,
  • imitative,
  • makeshift,
  • smacking of,
  • inaccurate,
  • suppose,
  • gaudy,
  • exaggerate,
  • caricature,
  • DO,
  • put on,
  • twisted,
  • junk,
  • suspect,
  • stopgap,
  • put-up job,
  • icon,
  • likeness,
  • utility,
  • Mannerist,
  • misbegotten,
  • Aped,
  • Pasticcio,
  • Mimicked,
  • change,
  • resemblance,
  • sign,
  • fair-weather friend,
  • deputy,
  • infer,
  • faux,
  • something like,
  • certified copy,
  • pseud,
  • paper-hanger,
  • unfounded,
  • wrong,
  • hollow man,
  • relief,
  • tin,
  • fair copy,
  • incorrect,
  • cheap,
  • temporary,
  • portrait,
  • Elusory,
  • surreptitious,
  • substitute,
  • unauthentic,
  • unreal,
  • succedaneum,
  • provisional,
  • mimicker,
  • represent,
  • plea,
  • unctuous,
  • Formalist,
  • Flam,
  • perform,
  • man-made,
  • ghostwriter,
  • representative,
  • perverted,
  • allegation,
  • poll parrot,
  • replacement,
  • phony-baloney,
  • synecdoche,
  • similitude,
  • illusory,
  • phoney,
  • hokey,
  • spare,
  • reserves,
  • exchange,
  • illegitimate,
  • role player,
  • Polly,
  • Titivated,
  • suggestive of,
  • make-believe,
  • SPARES,
  • mealy,
  • alternative,
  • color,
  • image,
  • believe,
  • fabulous,
  • ape,
  • personnel,
  • sniveler,
  • whited sepulcher,
  • swindler,
  • similar,
  • bluffer,
  • favoring,
  • Resembling,
  • fabricate,
  • hoax,
  • pretext,
  • tentative,
  • sub,
  • feign,
  • Subdititious,
  • supplanter,
  • snuffler,
  • excuse,
  • comparison,
  • construct,
  • utility player,
  • man of straw,
  • bluff,
  • Substituent,
  • surmise,
  • jive,
  • poser,
  • Imitated,
  • untrue,
  • gloss,
  • monkey,
  • ghost,
  • contrive,
  • identical,
  • simulated,
  • fictive,
  • so-called,
  • surrogate,
  • concoct,
  • copyist,
  • backup,
  • false friend,
  • homogeneous,
  • forced.

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.