All phony synonyms
phoΒ·ny
P p adj phony
- imposturous β the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- hot stuff β a person or thing of exceptional interest or merit.
- dummiest β a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- deceptive β If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- manmade β produced, formed, or made by humans.
- fraudulent β characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- cooked-up β to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- incogitable β Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- hollywood β the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- false β not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
noun phony
- co-ordinate β If you co-ordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- mockers β to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- attitudinizer β One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
- apery β imitative behaviour; mimicry
- grandioseness β affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- fourflusher β a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- backslider β A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- mimesis β Rhetoric. imitation or reproduction of the supposed words of another, as in order to represent his or her character.
- knockoff β an act or instance of knocking off.
- imitation β a result or product of imitating.
- maligner β to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- bad actor β a mean, ill-tempered, troublemaking, or evil person.
- deluder β to mislead the mind or judgment of; deceive: His conceit deluded him into believing he was important.
- grandiosity β affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- duplication β an act or instance of duplicating.
- flim-flam β Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.
- misleader β One who leads into error.
- front β the foremost part or surface of anything.
- lookalike β a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
- flimflammer β a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
verb phony
- copy β If you make a copy of something, you produce something that looks like the original thing.
- misspeak β Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
- misspeaking β (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
- duplicate β a copy exactly like an original.
- misspoke β Simple past form of misspeak.
- misinstruct β To instruct badly or wrongly.
- misspoken β Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- dittoed β the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: β³. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
adjective phony
- impostrous β (archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
- falsified β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- forged β to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- copied β an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.