Definition of phoney in English:

phoney

(North American phony)

adjectivephonier, phoniest ˈfəʊni

informal

Not genuine; fraudulent.
虚假的，伪造的；欺诈性的，诈骗的
phoney cruise-ship job offers
Example sentencesExamples
- Three illegal aliens are accused of using phony documents to get jobs at a U.S. military base.
- Traditional fakes come from a process called offset lithography that produces phony dollars without the ‘raised ink’ feel of genuine bills.
- And how would the time spent by the presenters of ‘happenings’ and other such phony pretences of art be measured?
- He'll continue to have a hard time convincing voters he isn't a dangerous and phoney pretender with no business shooting higher than, say, the Sports Ministry.
- These offer a phoney impression of simplicity, reducing complex manifesto policies to a few slogans.
- Labour has cooked up this phoney row just to manufacture cheap headlines on the eve of a general election.
- Sadly, phoney clinics offer spurious tests which will diagnose allergies in virtually anybody.
- But isn't there also a growing problem with counterfeit phony drugs, pharmaceuticals, as well?
- It's too late, of course, and Affleck is forced to maintain his phony identity, fake his way through the casino hit, and hope he makes it alive to final credits.
- The 1990s was a decade of fraudulent privatisations, phony education and poverty alleviating campaigns.
- A phony Tiffany brand watch, whose genuine model carries 160,000 yen price tag in Japan, is on sale for 150 yuan.
- For as little as $50, Americans desperate for jobs are buying phony degrees with seals from prestigious universities like Columbia.
- So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists?
- There was a group that modeled themselves on Wittgenstein, which I thought was quite phony and pretentious.
- You have to show genuine empathy, not phony sympathy.
- The report was triggered in part by a $146-million fraud uncovered last year in which the department paid phoney invoices during a 10-year period.
- Perhaps he can find some money to put towards some genuine tax reform by clamping down on these phoney charities.
- Who could have failed to see that there were no manufacturer's name or address or ingredients or shelf-life on the packages of the phoney milk powder?
- There is usually a complete lack of ceremony with this type of person as they are not a phony psychic or exorcist.
- Access to the properties is gained by putting a phoney offer down.
Synonyms
bogus, not genuine, sham, false, fake, fraudulent, forged, feigned, counterfeit, so-called, spurious, pseudo
imitation, man-made, mock, ersatz, artificial, synthetic, manufactured, simulated, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy
make-believe, pretended, contrived, affected, insincere
informal pretend, put-on
British informal, dated cod

nounPlural phoneys, Plural phonies ˈfəʊni

informal

A fraudulent person or thing.
骗子；假冒者；假货，赝品
Example sentencesExamples
- Here we deal with frauds and phonies, money grabbers and odd-balls.
- Veterans call them by all sorts of names: phonies, fakes, imposters, wannabes.
- I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
- She was very acute at spotting the fake and the phony.
- People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them.
- Like me he understood that the people around him were fakes and phoneys and pretty soon I realised he hated school as much as I did.
- I never feel comfortable at an upscale restaurant, where I often feel like a phony trying to fake clever conversation, social appropriateness, and political correctness.
- What a miserable bunch of phoneys they are, both the traitors and their spin doctors.
- But other merchants recognized the bills as phonies right away.
- That's the conundrum of the modern skeptics movement: Intelligent Design theorists and deniers of global warming may very well be phonies and scoundrels, but no one is going to debunk them in the classic sense.
- At the conclusion of each episode, the one phony is revealed.
- But this argument is largely a phony because the filibuster rules have been changed by the Democrats in the past.
- To be blunt about it, by any normal standard most of these guys are liars and phonies.
- It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety.
- From the photograph down, everything was a fraud and a phoney.
- So, you may be saying, these ‘rule-breakers,’ with their aura of rebellion, are nothing but phonies!
- But any moment the spell might fail, their eyes would be opened and they would realise I was a fraud, a phoney.
- What they hate is being patronised by phonies.
- Salinger has given voice to what every adolescent or at least what every middle class adolescent thinks but is too inhibited to say, which is that success is a sham and that successful people are mostly phonies.
- Why are you playing the edges; why bother to debunk, why spend your time exposing people that are outright frauds, phonies, or who are merely self deluded?
Synonyms
impostor, sham, fake, fraud, mountebank, quack, cheat, swindler, fraudster, confidence trickster, defrauder, hoaxer, bluffer, pretender, masquerader, charlatan, rogue, scoundrel
informal con man, con artist
dated confidence man
counterfeit, fake, forgery, sham, hoax, imitation, copy, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy

Derivatives

phonily

adverb ˈfəʊnɪliˈfoʊnəli

informal

In a way that is not genuine; insincerely.
he phonily claims he just wanted to have fun
Example sentencesExamples
- the preacher with his phonily awestruck words
- ‘You wish he was’ Laena said, smiling phonily at Cam.
- The newspaper's editorial asserts that the Oklahoma City bomber's comments reveal ‘a mind warped by self-induced militancy and by a detached, phonily objective language of profit and loss.’
- In the interview, he phonily claims he ‘just wanted to have fun tonight.’

phoniness

noun ˈfəʊnɪnəsˈfoʊninəs

mass noun

informal

The quality of not being genuine; insincerity.
the phoniness of the candidates' claims
Example sentencesExamples
- teens are extremely adept at recognizing phoniness
- The message has adolescence in it - he is dealing with questions of sincerity and phoniness - but the technique is, at the end of it, subtly mature.
- Holden Caulfield, the hero of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, was its Shakespeare, articulating its half-formed hatred and its simmering resentment of phoniness.
- It all smacks of phoniness and opportunism to me.

Origin

Late 19th century: of unknown origin.

The fraudulent practice of the fawney-rig is probably the source of phoney ‘not genuine, fraudulent’, which was first recorded in the USA at the end of the 19th century. In 1823 Pierce Egan, a chronicler of popular pursuits and low life in England, described how the fawney-rig worked. ‘A fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value.’ The word fawney came from Irish fáinne ‘a ring’. The phoney war was the period of comparative inaction at the beginning of the Second World War, between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and that of Norway in April 1940. The expression is now used of any coming confrontation, as in ‘the debates on tax in the pre-election phoney war’ (Earth Matters, 1997).

Rhymes

abalone, Albinoni, Annigoni, Antonioni, baloney, Bodoni, boloney, bony, calzone, cannelloni, canzone, cicerone, coney, conversazione, coronae, crony, Gaborone, Giorgione, macaroni, Manzoni, Marconi, mascarpone, minestrone, Moroni, Mulroney, padrone, panettoni, pepperoni, polony, pony, rigatoni, Shoshone, Sloaney, stony, Toni, tony, zabaglione

词汇	phoney
释义	Definition of phoney in English: phoney (North American phony) adjectivephonier, phoniest ˈfəʊni informal Not genuine; fraudulent. 虚假的，伪造的；欺诈性的，诈骗的 phoney cruise-ship job offers Example sentencesExamples Three illegal aliens are accused of using phony documents to get jobs at a U.S. military base. Traditional fakes come from a process called offset lithography that produces phony dollars without the ‘raised ink’ feel of genuine bills. And how would the time spent by the presenters of ‘happenings’ and other such phony pretences of art be measured? He'll continue to have a hard time convincing voters he isn't a dangerous and phoney pretender with no business shooting higher than, say, the Sports Ministry. These offer a phoney impression of simplicity, reducing complex manifesto policies to a few slogans. Labour has cooked up this phoney row just to manufacture cheap headlines on the eve of a general election. Sadly, phoney clinics offer spurious tests which will diagnose allergies in virtually anybody. But isn't there also a growing problem with counterfeit phony drugs, pharmaceuticals, as well? It's too late, of course, and Affleck is forced to maintain his phony identity, fake his way through the casino hit, and hope he makes it alive to final credits. The 1990s was a decade of fraudulent privatisations, phony education and poverty alleviating campaigns. A phony Tiffany brand watch, whose genuine model carries 160,000 yen price tag in Japan, is on sale for 150 yuan. For as little as $50, Americans desperate for jobs are buying phony degrees with seals from prestigious universities like Columbia. So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists? There was a group that modeled themselves on Wittgenstein, which I thought was quite phony and pretentious. You have to show genuine empathy, not phony sympathy. The report was triggered in part by a $146-million fraud uncovered last year in which the department paid phoney invoices during a 10-year period. Perhaps he can find some money to put towards some genuine tax reform by clamping down on these phoney charities. Who could have failed to see that there were no manufacturer's name or address or ingredients or shelf-life on the packages of the phoney milk powder? There is usually a complete lack of ceremony with this type of person as they are not a phony psychic or exorcist. Access to the properties is gained by putting a phoney offer down. Synonyms bogus, not genuine, sham, false, fake, fraudulent, forged, feigned, counterfeit, so-called, spurious, pseudo imitation, man-made, mock, ersatz, artificial, synthetic, manufactured, simulated, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy make-believe, pretended, contrived, affected, insincere informal pretend, put-on British informal, dated cod nounPlural phoneys, Plural phonies ˈfəʊni informal A fraudulent person or thing. 骗子；假冒者；假货，赝品 Example sentencesExamples Here we deal with frauds and phonies, money grabbers and odd-balls. Veterans call them by all sorts of names: phonies, fakes, imposters, wannabes. I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree. She was very acute at spotting the fake and the phony. People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them. Like me he understood that the people around him were fakes and phoneys and pretty soon I realised he hated school as much as I did. I never feel comfortable at an upscale restaurant, where I often feel like a phony trying to fake clever conversation, social appropriateness, and political correctness. What a miserable bunch of phoneys they are, both the traitors and their spin doctors. But other merchants recognized the bills as phonies right away. That's the conundrum of the modern skeptics movement: Intelligent Design theorists and deniers of global warming may very well be phonies and scoundrels, but no one is going to debunk them in the classic sense. At the conclusion of each episode, the one phony is revealed. But this argument is largely a phony because the filibuster rules have been changed by the Democrats in the past. To be blunt about it, by any normal standard most of these guys are liars and phonies. It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety. From the photograph down, everything was a fraud and a phoney. So, you may be saying, these ‘rule-breakers,’ with their aura of rebellion, are nothing but phonies! But any moment the spell might fail, their eyes would be opened and they would realise I was a fraud, a phoney. What they hate is being patronised by phonies. Salinger has given voice to what every adolescent or at least what every middle class adolescent thinks but is too inhibited to say, which is that success is a sham and that successful people are mostly phonies. Why are you playing the edges; why bother to debunk, why spend your time exposing people that are outright frauds, phonies, or who are merely self deluded? Synonyms impostor, sham, fake, fraud, mountebank, quack, cheat, swindler, fraudster, confidence trickster, defrauder, hoaxer, bluffer, pretender, masquerader, charlatan, rogue, scoundrel informal con man, con artist dated confidence man counterfeit, fake, forgery, sham, hoax, imitation, copy, reproduction, replica, facsimile, dummy, model, toy Derivatives phonily adverb ˈfəʊnɪliˈfoʊnəli informal In a way that is not genuine; insincerely. he phonily claims he just wanted to have fun Example sentencesExamples the preacher with his phonily awestruck words ‘You wish he was’ Laena said, smiling phonily at Cam. The newspaper's editorial asserts that the Oklahoma City bomber's comments reveal ‘a mind warped by self-induced militancy and by a detached, phonily objective language of profit and loss.’ In the interview, he phonily claims he ‘just wanted to have fun tonight.’ phoniness noun ˈfəʊnɪnəsˈfoʊninəs mass nouninformal The quality of not being genuine; insincerity. the phoniness of the candidates' claims Example sentencesExamples teens are extremely adept at recognizing phoniness The message has adolescence in it - he is dealing with questions of sincerity and phoniness - but the technique is, at the end of it, subtly mature. Holden Caulfield, the hero of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, was its Shakespeare, articulating its half-formed hatred and its simmering resentment of phoniness. It all smacks of phoniness and opportunism to me. Origin Late 19th century: of unknown origin. The fraudulent practice of the fawney-rig is probably the source of phoney ‘not genuine, fraudulent’, which was first recorded in the USA at the end of the 19th century. In 1823 Pierce Egan, a chronicler of popular pursuits and low life in England, described how the fawney-rig worked. ‘A fellow drops a brass ring, double gilt, which he picks up before the party meant to be cheated, and to whom he disposes of it for less than its supposed, and ten times more than its real, value.’ The word fawney came from Irish fáinne ‘a ring’. The phoney war was the period of comparative inaction at the beginning of the Second World War, between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and that of Norway in April 1940. The expression is now used of any coming confrontation, as in ‘the debates on tax in the pre-election phoney war’ (Earth Matters, 1997). Rhymes abalone, Albinoni, Annigoni, Antonioni, baloney, Bodoni, boloney, bony, calzone, cannelloni, canzone, cicerone, coney, conversazione, coronae, crony, Gaborone, Giorgione, macaroni, Manzoni, Marconi, mascarpone, minestrone, Moroni, Mulroney, padrone, panettoni, pepperoni, polony, pony, rigatoni, Shoshone, Sloaney, stony, Toni, tony, zabaglione
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