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Phoney   /fˈoʊni/   Listen
Phoney

noun
(Also spelled phony)
1.
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.  Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender.





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"Phoney" Quotes from Famous Books



... Maybe the Naturalists are right. Maybe we ought to cut out all this phoney progress and phoney peace that passeth all understanding. I'm no liberal, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I think the Naturalists have ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch


Words linked to "Phoney" :   charmer, imitative, deceiver, trickster, beguiler, sweet talker, whited sepulcher, Tartufe, smoothy, cheater, cheat, smoothie, whited sepulchre, counterfeit, slicker, Tartuffe


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