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Antonyms for phony

Grammar : Adj
Spell : foh-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfoʊ ni

Definition of phony

Origin :
  • also phoney, "not genuine," 1899, perhaps an alteration of fawney "gilt brass ring used by swindlers."
  • His most successful swindle was selling "painted" or "phony" diamonds. He had a plan of taking cheap stones, and by "doctoring" them make them have a brilliant and high class appearance. His confederates would then take the diamonds to other pawnbrokers and dispose of them. ["The Jewelers Review," New York, April 5, 1899]
  • The noun meaning "phony person or thing" is attested from 1902.
  • adj fake, false
Example sentences :
  • I looks at him, and then, thinking of the phony money, I looks at Durks.
  • Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
  • Their phony history was set up to deceive their own people as well as others.
  • Extract from : « Cubs of the Wolf » by Raymond F. Jones
  • And you knew, right away, that Swami was a phony from Flatbush.
  • Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
  • For there's nothin' phony about my new Uncle Kyrle, take it from me!
  • Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford
  • Say, Tuttle, you know you can't work any 'phony deal on the Corrugated.
  • Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
  • I didnt say your invention was a phony, Colonel Dower said placatingly.
  • Extract from : « With No Strings Attached » by Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA David Gordon)
  • No more tricks like the phony colonel and the atom bomb that didn’t ‘explode.
  • Extract from : « Space Platform » by Murray Leinster
  • And at the end of it, the hucksters, the phony props, would be there first.
  • Extract from : « The Mating of the Moons » by Kenneth O'Hara
  • He assumed it was real; no one would wear a phony one that big.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Skull » by John Blaine
  • Maybe the guy was a crackpot or phony, but it wouldn't hurt to hear his story.
  • Extract from : « The Chameleon Man » by William P. McGivern

Synonyms for phony

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