Phoney

Synonyms for "phoney" (56 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Adjective(7 words)

bogus fake artificial bastard charlatancon artistcounterfeit

artificial bogus charlatan counterfeit counterfeiter

Strong matches (16)

deceitful deceiver dishonest double-dealer ersatz factitious fake faker false forgery fraud fraudulent

Noun(2 words)

dissembler dissimulator

Adjective(2 words)

feigned fraud

Related words (28)

Adjective(7 words)

fraudulent imitation impostor insincere phony sham untrue

hoax humbug hypocritical imitation impostor insincere mock mountebank paste phony pretended pretender quack sham spurious synthetic trickster unreal

Noun(3 words)

hypocrite phony pretender

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

15 entries

beguiler cheat cheater deceiver deception deceptive false fraud human insincerity item object person slicker trickster

More specific

16 entries

bogus degreebogus passportbogus productcharlatancon artistcounterfeit currencyfake diplomafake documentforged coinforged documentsfraudster impostorphoney apologyphoney excusephoney smilesham certificate

Collocations

10 entries

phoney apologyphoney certificatephoney claimphoney credentialsphoney currencyphoney documentphoney evidencephoney moneyphoney passportphoney smile

Inflections

3 entries

phonier phonies phoniest

Derivations

2 entries

phoniness phony

similar

2 entries

counterfeit imitative

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Sami had a felony conviction for writing phoney checks.

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Sami was really phoney and weird.

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He tried to escape with the phoney money.

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