phoney

adjective (phonier, phoniest) informal disapproving (US also phony)

/ˈfəʊ.ni/

/ˈfoʊ-/

Definition

› not sincere or not real: All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile. He gave the police a phoney address.Affected and insincereFaking and pretending phoney

noun [C] › I don't trust him - I think he's a phoney.Affected and insincereFaking and pretending

(Definition of phoney adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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