Words and phrases that have a meaning related to phony: (146 results)
Often used in the same context:
bogus, phoney, fake, fictitious, false, fraudulent, sham, faux, phantom, fictious, ersatz, doctored, purported, con artist, inflated, dishonest, legitimate, counterfeit, disguised, deceptive, spurious, pseudo, gullible, deceitful, insincere, misleading, worthless, fallacious, specious, disingenuous, legit, crackpot, inauthentic, sophistical, false pretenses, mendacious, exaggerated, suckered, credulous, baldfaced, potemkin village, red herring, unwitting, nonsensical, shameless, preposterous, glib, dubious, pyramid scheme, ponzi scheme, demagogic, unsubstantiated, mock, genuine, outlandish, absurd, crooked, illusory, pseudoscientific, sob story, mealymouthed, infernal machine, fatuous, imaginary, untruthful, purloined, true, overblown, real, truthy, cynical, unscrupulous, illusionary, pencil pusher, goofy, ridiculous, unknowing, tawdrier, ludicrous, perjured, falsifiable, dummy, penny ante, smarmy, fictional, nonexistent, huckstering, obfuscating, erroneous, undercover agent, misguided, self fulfilling prophecy, fleeced, asinine, laughable, mongering, dunderheaded, addlepated, scurrilous, deadbeat dad, swindling, bona fide, crap, fool, coward, hypocrite, liar, snob, ass, fuckin, idiot, jackass, moron, nonsense, idiots, lie, mess, faked, falsified, idiotic, stupid, unconvincing, duplicate, incriminating, silly, funny, issued, polite, preprinted, reassuring, typewritten, crazy
More specific:
charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, tartufe, tartuffe, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre
Synonyms:
Also try:dissembler, imitative
— Nouns for phony: war, name, smile, accent, story, names, issue, address, money, claims, documents, more...
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