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