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- Dictionaryphoney/ˈfəʊni/
adjective
- 1. not genuine; fraudulent: "phoney cruise-ship job offers"
noun
- 1. a fraudulent person or thing. Similar
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someone who is not sincere or not what they claim to be: I don't trust him - I think he's a phoney.
adjective. pho· ny ˈfō-nē. variants or less commonly phoney. phonier; phoniest. Synonyms of phony. : not genuine or real: such as. a (1) : intended to deceive or mislead. (2) : intended to defraud : counterfeit. b. : arousing suspicion : probably dishonest. something phony about the story. c. : having no basis in fact : fictitious.
an insincere or pretentious person. something that is not genuine; a fake. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. Discover More.
adjective. us / ˈfoʊ·ni / Add to word list. represented as real but actually false; intended to deceive:
Definition of phoney adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you say that someone is phoney, you disapprove of them because they are pretending to be someone that they are not in order to deceive people. [ informal , disapproval ] He looks totally phoney to me.
If you say that someone is phoney, you disapprove of them because they are pretending to be someone that they are not in order to deceive people.
