phoney

pho·ney  (fn)

adj. & n.

Variant of phony.

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phoney or esp US phony Informal

Adjective

[-nier, -niest]

1. not genuine: a phoney Belgian 50-franc coin

2. (of a person) insincere or pretentious

Noun

pl -neys or esp US -nies

1. an insincere or pretentious person

2. something that is not genuine [origin unknown]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	phoney - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker - someone with an assured and ingratiating manner Tartufe, Tartuffe - a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere) whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre - a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
Adj.	1.	phoney - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance bastard, bogus, fake, phony counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

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phoney (Informal)

adjective 1. fake, affected, assumed, trick, put-on, false, forged, imitation, sham, pseudo (informal) counterfeit, feigned, spurious << OPPOSITE genuine

adjective 2. bogus, false, fake, pseudo (informal) ersatz

noun 3. faker, fraud, fake, pretender, humbug, impostor, pseud (informal)

noun 4. fake, sham, forgery, counterfeit

Translations

phoney [ˈfəunɪ] adj → faux(fausse) → factice; [person] → pas franc(franche)

n (= person) → charlatan m; fumiste m/f

phoney [ˈfəunɪ] adj [address] → falsch; [accent] → unecht; [person] → unaufrichtig

phoney [ˈfəunɪ] adj → falso/a, fasullo/a

n (person) → ciarlatano