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Phony   /fˈoʊni/   Listen
adjective
phoney  adj.  (compar. phonier; superl. phoniest)  (Also spelled phony)  
1.
Imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; false; counterfeit; fake; as, a phoney diamond; a phoney hundred-dollar bill.
Synonyms: bogus, counterfeit, fake, ersatz; fraudulent; false.
2.
Pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; of people.


phony  adj.  (compar. phonier; superl. phoniest)  (Also spelled phoney)  
1.
Imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; counterfeit; fake; as, a phony diamond; a phony hundred-dollar bill.
Synonyms: phoney, bogus, counterfeit, fake.
2.
Pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; of people.


noun
phoney  n.  (Also spelled phony)  Something or someone that is phoney.


phony  n.  (Also spelled phoney)  Something or someone that is phony.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Phony" Quotes from Famous Books



... dividend end, watered the stock and kept the whole thing going by phony financing while there was a chance of our hoodwinking Lawton into going into it voluntarily. He was one grand little promoter, Rockamore was; pity he got cold feet, and promoted himself into ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... the palace, and instead he would go down-town not to the palace and never show up till all hours of the morning. Then when his wife asked him where he was putting in his time, y'understand, instead of acting reasonable and telling her a phony story about being sick and tired of getting stuck at the Reichskanzlei night after night, and that he wished the old man would get through springing a new chancellor on him every week, understand me, he gives himself dead ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass
... man who knows your record, in the next place. And on the next count, as the man who 's wise to those phony bills of lading of yours, and those doped-up clearance papers, and those cases of carbines you 've got down your hold labeled bridge equipment, and that nitro and giant-caps, and that hundred thousand rounds of smokeless you 're running ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer
... a bully picture of our anxious friend laying out Harrison. Nothing phony about that, Threewit. Won't go in this reel, but she'll make a humdinger in some other. Say, didn't Harrison hit the dust fine! Funny you lads can't ever pull off a fall ...
— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine
... wear phony jewelry, thank you," said Miss Whitmore, and Chip thought dimples weren't so ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower


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