单词	phony
释义	phonypho‧ny /ˈfəʊni $ ˈfoʊ-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINphony Origin: 1800-1900 Perhaps from fawney ‘brass ring used for deceiving people’ (18-19 centuries), from Irish Gaelic fáinne ‘ring’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a phony driver's license a phony Italian accent EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS He has scheduled a phony parliamentary election for October 15, and his own term expires next year. His outsider image, to start with, is phony. Many such claims in the Middle East are phony. On many other cuts, though, he goofs around in a self- deprecating way that actually seems phony. People have been peddling phony weight-loss elixirs since before the turn of the century. There was, however, nothing phony about his powers of connoisseurship, and looking at pictures with him was fascinating. Was the card a phony card? Was the number a phony number? Thesaurus THESAURUS► false not real, but intended to seem real and deceive people: · He uses a false name. ► fake made to look or seem like something else, especially something worth a lot more money: · fake fur· a fake Rolex watch· fake designer goods· a fake $100 bill ► forged a forged official document or bank note has been illegally made to look like a real one: · a forged passport· a forged £50 note ► counterfeit counterfeit money or goods have been illegally made to look exactly like something else: · How do you detect counterfeit currency?· counterfeit drugs ► imitation made to look real – used especially about guns, bombs etc or about materials: · The two men used an imitation firearm to carry out the robbery.· imitation leather/silk/silver ► phoney/phony disapproving informal false – used when you think someone is deliberately trying to deceive people: · She put on a phoney New York accent.· The doctors were accused of supplying phoney medical certificates.· There’s something phoney about him.· phony advertisements ► spurious false and giving a wrong impression about someone or something: · spurious claims· That’s a spurious argument.· The company was trying to get some spurious respectability by using our name. the usual American spelling of phoney ► see thesaurus at false
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