phoney

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pho=ney

CIDE DICTIONARY

phoney, a. 

•  imitating something superior; intended to deceive; fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine; counterfeit; fake; as, a phoney diamond; a phoney hundred-dollar bill.  [PJC]
•  pretending to be other than one is; putting on false appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people.  [PJC]

phoney, n. 

 something or someone that is phony.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

phoney, adj. & n. (also phony) colloq.
--adj. (phonier, phoniest)
1 sham; counterfeit.
2 fictitious; fraudulent.
--n. (pl. -eys or -ies) a phoney person or thing.

Derivative

phonily adv. phoniness n.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

phoney

artificial, bogus, charlatan, counterfeit, counterfeiter, deceitful, deceiver, dishonest, double-dealer, ersatz, factitious, fake, faker, false, forgery, fraud, fraudulent, hoax, humbug, hypocritical, imitation, impostor, insincere, mock, mountebank, paste, phony, pretended, pretender, quack, sham, spurious, synthetic, trickster, unreal