phoney English

Meaning phoney meaning

What does phoney mean?

Definitions in simple English

phoney Adjective

— If something is phoney, it is not genuine. A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.

phoney Noun

— A phoney is a person who assumes an identity of another person. He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phoney.

phoney

— adjective (= bogus) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

— noun (= hypocrite) 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 phoney synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as phoney?

phoney English » English

false

phony

fake

pretender

hypocrite

dissimulator

dissembler

bogus

swindler

sham

impostor

fraud

dummy

counterfeit

con artist

bastard

wrongful

wrong

wangler

usurper

trickster

sharper

mendacious

jazzy

imposter

impersonator

fraudster

fly-by-night

fictitious

faker

erroneous

double-dealer

dodger

delusive

defrauder

deceptive

concocted

con man

cheater

cheat

base

artificial

Examples phoney examples

How do I use phoney in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

That guy's a phoney.

It will show that we were going to sell it to the state under phoney names.

Me sitting around playing straight for that phoney patriotic chatter.

Would I give you anything phoney?

He lashes this burg into a frenzy, he rigs this phoney trial.

I thought that it was a phoney. I had to make sure.

It may have been a phoney tip.

Do you really want to marry that phoney joker?

All cardboard, all hollow, all phoney, all done with mirrors.

She was a fool not to sense there was something phoney in my set-up.

Phoney, below-the-belt journalism.

Phoney.

I'd say your story is as phoney as a three dollar bill.

I'll bet it's a phoney again.

I always said the Union National was a phoney bank.

He's been eating that phoney fruit.

I told you I was a phoney and a bad guy to get stuck on.

Especially you, the phoney American.

And if that phoney Russian, Italian or Turk screams at you, if that director says anything at all, give his butt a kick from me!

He comes into my store with a phoney cheque and.

Who came into your store with a phoney cheque?

Well, we kinda hoped that it might make up for the. phoney telegram.

Why, you cheap phoney.

And the facts are phoney, from here to the death cell.

I don't stand for phoney alibis, see?

Not till I tell him this phoney GI tipped off the army.

Not pussyfooting around with a phoney attitude.

Which may or may not be phoney.

You heard me. Phoney.

I'm sick to death of this phoney reverence!

Don't tell me you believe that phoney story about losing the knife and about being at the movies.

There's a phoney deal if I ever heard one.

AII the phoney patriotic cIaptrap of the employers.

News and current affairs

What Ma must do is forge a clearer consensus within Taiwan that the independence vs. unification issue is a phoney one.