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Synonyms and Antonyms of phony
- a phony watch with a designer logo
bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, queer, sham, snide, spurious, unauthentic
- she always has this phony smile just before she betrays you
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)
cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering
conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden
artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
- her concern for our welfare is as phony as all get-out—she just wants to know our business
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
Synonyms and Antonyms of phony
- the fancy "emerald" ring turned out to be a phony
- the person who performed the liposuction operation was later discovered to be a phony
ace, adept, authority, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, past master, professional, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
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Synonyms and Antonyms of phony
- the terrorists were able to move around the country using phonied driver's licenses
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