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phony
1[ foh-nee ]
adjective
- not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit:
a phony diamond.
- false or deceiving; not truthful; concocted:
a phony explanation.
- insincere or deceitful; affected or pretentious:
a phony sales representative.
noun
verb (used with object)
- to falsify; counterfeit; fabricate (often followed by up ):
to phony up a document.
-phony
2- a combining form used in the formation of abstract nouns corresponding to nouns ending in -phone:
telephony.
-phony
1combining form
- indicating a specified type of sound
euphony
cacophony
phony
2/ ˈfəʊnɪ /
adjective
- a variant spelling (esp US) of phoney
Derived Forms
- -phonic, combining_form:in_adjective
- ˈphoniness, noun
Other Words From
- phoni·ly adverb
- phoni·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of phony1
Word History and Origins
Origin of phony1
Example Sentences
It just gets a bit phony whenever she wavers and pretends otherwise.
He was arrested trying to flee to Jordan using phony identification.
Surely they believe as well that the very concept of an ethnic nation “chosen” by God is phony and unjust.
This single program alone has generated tens of thousands of phony Twitterers.
In 2012, Facebook announced that 83 million profiles—pushing 10 percent of the total number on the site—were phony.
I would even, I decided, stoop to having him thrown in jail on a phony charge, if that should be necessary.
And you knew, right away, that Swami was a phony from Flatbush.
The Swami was an obvious phony of the baldest fakery, yet he had something.
He had less than a hundred credits, a knife, a deck of phony cards, and a yellow ticket.
Unless the money is phony, or the pass is phony in which case the turnstile locks and all hell breaks loose.
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