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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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phoney

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Adjective
 : 
pho=ney

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun phoney has 1 sense

Adjective phoney has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

phoneya. 
  •  imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; counterfeit; fake; as, a phoney diamond; a phoney hundred-dollar bill.  [PJC]
  •  pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people.  [PJC]
phoneyn. 
     something or someone that is phony.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

phoney, adj. & n. (also phony) colloq.
--adj. (phonier, phoniest)
1 sham; counterfeit.
2 fictitious; fraudulent.
--n. (pl. -eys or -ies) a phoney person or thing.

Derivative
phonily adv. phoniness n.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

phoney

artificial, bogus, charlatan, counterfeit, counterfeiter, deceitful, deceiver, dishonest, double-dealer, ersatz, factitious, fake, faker, false, forgery, fraud, fraudulent, hoax, humbug, hypocritical, imitation, impostor, insincere, mock, mountebank, paste, phony, pretended, pretender, quack, sham, spurious, synthetic, trickster, unreal
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