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variants:
or phoney-baloney
Synonyms & Antonyms of phony-baloney
not being or expressing what one appears to be or express
- if you believe the company's phony-baloney press releases, it's in business solely for the benefit of mankind
Synonyms for phony-baloney
- artificial,
- backhanded,
- counterfeit,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- fake,
- feigned,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- Janus-faced,
- jive
- [slang],
- left-handed,
- lip,
- mealy,
- mealymouthed,
- Pecksniffian,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pretended,
- two-faced,
- unctuous
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“Phony-baloney.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phony-baloney. Accessed 22 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of phony-baloney was in 1936
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