Phonily

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a phony way, or to a phony extent

    "Or in the 70s without its being a case in point that our need for nostalgia had, after the coming and going of scads of phonily rustic eateries, really reached absurd proportions."

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"Or in the 70s without its being a case in point that our need for nostalgia had, after the coming and going of scads of phonily rustic eateries, really reached absurd proportions."

Etymology

From phony + -ly.

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