phoney (redirected from phoniness)

pho·ney  (fn)

adj. & n.

Variant of phony.

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phoney esp US, phony [ˈfəʊnɪ] Informal

adj -nier, -niest

1. not genuine; fake

2. (of a person) insincere or pretentious

n pl -neys, -nies

1. an insincere or pretentious person

2. something that is not genuine; a fake

[origin uncertain]

phoneyness  esp US, phoniness n

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 He used a phoney accent.
fake real, original, genuine, authentic, sincere, unaffected, bona fide, dinkum (Austral & N.Z. informal), unfeigned, unassumed

2. bogus, false, fake, pseudo (informal), ersatz phoney `experts'

noun

1. faker, fraud, fake, pretender, humbug, impostor, pseud (informal) He was a liar, a cheat, and a phoney.

2. fake, sham, forgery, counterfeit This passport is a phoney.

Translations

phoney phony (US also) [ˈfəʊnɪ]

A. ADJ [moustache] → falso, postizo; [name, document, smile] → falso; [accent] → fingido
there's sth phoney about it → esto huele a camelo
the phoney war (1939) → la guerra ilusoria

B. N (phoneys (pl)) (= person) → farsante mf; (= thing) → falsificación f

phoney [ˈfəʊni]

adj [excuse, accent] → bidon f inv
phoney excuses → des excuses bidons, des excuses bidon

n

(= insincere person) → charlatan m
phoney war phony war n (British) → drôle de guerre f
the phoney war (in 1939) → la drôle de guerre

phoney (inf)

adj

(= fake, pretentious) → unecht; excuse, deal, peace → faul (inf); name, accent → falsch; passport, money → gefälscht; story, report → erfunden; a phoney doctor → ein Scharlatan m; a phoney policeman → ein zwielichtiger Polizist; a phoney company → eine Schwindelfirma; a phoney war → kein echter Krieg; he’s so phoney → der ist doch nicht echt (inf); there’s something phoney about it → da ist was faul dran (inf)

(= insincere) person → falsch; emotion → unecht, vorgetäuscht

n (= thing) → Fälschung f; (= banknote also) → Blüte f (inf); (= bogus policeman etc) → Schwindler(in) m(f); (= doctor) → Scharlatan m; (= pretentious person) → Angeber(in) m(f)

phoney [ˈfəʊnɪ] (fam)

1. adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (gen) → falso/a, fasullo/a; (accent) → fasullo/a

2. n (person) → venditore/trice di fumo, ciarlatano/a