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- a phony watch with a designer logo
Synonyms for phony
- bogus,
- counterfeit,
- fake,
- false,
- forged,
- inauthentic,
- queer,
- sham,
- snide,
- spurious,
- unauthentic
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- she always has this phony smile just before she betrays you
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- automatic,
- canned,
- concocted,
- fabricated,
- hokey,
- labored,
- manufactured,
- pat,
- unauthentic,
- unreal,
- unrealistic
- double-dealing,
- empty,
- facile,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- mealy,
- mealymouthed,
- two-faced,
- unctuous
- exaggerated,
- histrionic,
- melodramatic,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- theatrical
- (also theatric)
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- her concern for our welfare is as phony as all get-out—she just wants to know our business
Synonyms for phony
- artificial,
- backhanded,
- counterfeit,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- fake,
- feigned,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- Janus-faced,
- jive
- [slang],
- left-handed,
- lip,
- mealy,
- mealymouthed,
- Pecksniffian,
- phony-baloney
- (or phoney-baloney),
- pretended,
- two-faced,
- unctuous
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phony
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of phony (Entry 2 of 3)
- the fancy "emerald" ring turned out to be a phony
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- the person who performed the liposuction operation was later discovered to be a phony
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- ace,
- adept,
- authority,
- crackerjack
- (also crackajack),
- expert,
- maestro,
- master,
- past master,
- professional,
- virtuoso,
- whiz,
- wizard
phony
verbSynonyms of phony (Entry 3 of 3)
- the terrorists were able to move around the country using phonied driver's licenses
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“Phony.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phoney. Accessed 27 January 2020.
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The first known use of phony was in 1889
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