phoney in English

adjective

1

not genuine; fraudulent.

I thought your accent was a bit phony

synonyms: bogus, false, fake, fraudulent, spurious, counterfeit, forged, feigned, pseudo, imitation, sham, man-made, mock, ersatz, synthetic, artificial, simulated, pretended, contrived, affected, insincere, inauthentic, pretend, put-on

adjective

• fake, phony, bogus, bastard

noun

• dissembler, phony, pretender, dissimulator, hypocrite

adjective

• bogus, false, fake, fraudulent, spurious, counterfeit, forged, feigned, pseudo, imitation, sham, man-made, mock, ersatz, synthetic, artificial, simulated, pretended, contrived, affected, insincere, inauthentic, pretend, put-on
• fake, bogus, phoney, bastard

Use "phoney" in a sentence

1. And that phoney accent?

2. He's a complete phoney!

3. This diamond is a phoney.

4. The man's a complete phoney.

5. Boofers, and Amy Phoney Barrett

6. – Six phoney green leather suitcases...

7. This man is a phoney.

8. He looks totally phoney to me.

9. I'm a pervert but not a phoney!

10. I'm a liar and a phoney.

11. It has been a phoney war.

12. "He's false, a phoney," Harry muttered.

13. There's something very phoney about him.

14. • Leavitt's Bombastic, trivial films were completely phoney

15. He gave the police a phoney address.

16. She spoke with a phoney Russian accent.

17. Leavitt's bombastic, trivial films were completely phoney.

18. Is that part of the disgraceful, phoney citizens charter?

19. I don't trust him - I think he's a phoney.

20. It irritates me when people give me phoney information.

21. All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile.

22. It's all there... secret bank accounts, phoney records, fake passports.

23. " Bang! Bang! " the small boy brandished a phoney pistol and shouted.

24. He has a sixth sense to recognise the genuine from the phoney.

25. Why do you need a divorce if marriage is phoney - baloney?

26. Likewise, they know that the government's phoney tax cuts are actually tax hikes

27. If you smoke the modern way, don't be fooled by phoney filter claims.

28. At the end of the Phoney War, Winston Churchill became the wartime Prime Minister.

29. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is the "phoney" accent of Bonhomie, …

30. It is election year, and a phoney war is being waged between the two main parties.

31. I've seen enough phoney IDs..... to recognise the ones they got must have cost a fortune.

32. After the eight-month Phoney War, the Germans launched their offensive in the west on 10 May 1940.

33. In the mild autumn of the phoney war, it was a prosperous and agreeable neighbourhood in which to live.

34. But if the other party doesn't use this level of response themselves, they may regard you as insincere or phoney.

35. Howe's speech effectively marked the end of the phoney war and the start of the public campaign for votes.

36. Phoney psychics could milk their rich clients for years, charging fancy prices for rap sessions with the dear departed.

37. A hoax is a hoax, of course, but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga's grandson.

38. ‘The solution obtained by dissolving the absorbent Albuminoid in the buffer advantageously contains 6% by weight of this Albuminoid.’ Word of the day phoney

39. 20: The "Phoney War": French troops settle in the Maginot line's dormitories and tunnels; the British build new fortifications along the "gap" between the Maginot line and the Channel.

40. Adjective fake, false, artificial, forged, dummy, imitation, sham, fraudulent, pseudo (informal), counterfeit, spurious, ersatz, phoney or phony (informal) Bogus insurance claims real, true, actual, genuine, authentic, dinkum (Austral & N.Z

41. Assumed adjective false, affected, made-up, pretended, fake, imitation, bogus, simulated, sham, counterfeit, feigned, spurious, fictitious, make-believe, pseudonymous, phoney or phony (informal) The articles were published under an Assumed name