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Definition of phonily in English English dictionary
- phoney
- A person who professes beliefs or opinions that he or she does not hold
- phoney
- 1900 Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance
A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phoney one.
- phoney
- A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own
He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phoney.
- phoney
- disapproval 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. He looks totally phoney to me. Phoney is also a noun. `He's false, a phoney,' Harry muttered
- phoney
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- phoney
- {i} something fake, counterfeit object
- phoney
- disapproval If you describe something as phoney, you disapprove of it because it is false rather than genuine. He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute
- phoney
- A person who professes beliefs or opinions that he or she does not hold or assumes an identity other than their own
- phoney
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold