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Meanings of phony in English
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.
Synonyms
Examples for "hypocrite"
Examples for "hypocrite"
1
And for those that attend the hypocrite, in general they are these.
2
But he made himself a hypocrite; and that he found much easier.
3
What a shameless hypocrite! I had to admit, they made a point.
4
I also played the hypocrite, and frequented the conferences of Saint Lazarus.
5
The lady on this occasion acted finely the part of a hypocrite.
1
Prussia demanded the expulsion of the pretender; to which Austria said no.
2
About the time of the Paris pretender in the kingdom of Naples.
3
The ideal of China is sincerity but an actor is a pretender.
4
The pretender braced himself for the scrutiny the eyes made of him.
5
You show more determination than I had thought possible for a pretender.
1
I was a close and resolute dissembler-inthis one case at least.
2
Clever dissembler that he was, he could not prevent an involuntary start.
3
He was then in Clarendon's eyes preeminently a dissembler-'thegreatest dissembler living'.
4
Perhaps Stoppard's comparisons with that great dissembler Wilde are more apt than ever.
5
You have not been weak; you have been abused by a devilish dissembler.
1
Bajee Rao, practised dissimulator as he was, flushed at this unexpected accusation.
2
He is a great dissimulator, a spreader abroad of clever fantasies and lies.
3
This is, perhaps unconsciously, partly Ned's doing; at fifteen he wasalready a master dissimulator.
4
Angelica: (sighing) What violence is necessary to turn me into a dissimulator with all the world.
5
Tostig, with all his vices, was a poor dissimulator, and his sullen spirit betrayed itself when he took leave of his host.
Usage of phony in English
1
You know what we do to people give us a phony lead?
2
That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds.
3
Then they discovered something really big: phony anti-virus programs known as scareware.
4
However, like a lot of this six-episode series, the prizes are phony.
5
I keep thinking I've got some kind of phony vibration period here.
6
It also penalised businesses that had paid PromoSalento for phony, glowing reviews.
7
The phony Electoral College made a laughing stock out of our nation.
8
Or maybe Dominick had, and he still thought she was a phony?
9
How did they manage to make an ethereal translucent flob look phony?
10
It also penalised properties that had paid PromoSalento for phony, glowing reviews.
11
Some travel under phony names-andthe Santa Fe people keep their secret.
12
Needless to say, the guy was a phony, but people can wish.
13
The odds of our bonds being phony had dwindled to practically nothing.
14
Identities of the various owners are buried under layers of phony documentation.
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The last attempts at denial or phony innocence shot out the window.
16
But troublemakers who submit phony titles may be blocked once they're identified.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Rare