Meaning & use
phoney
Not genuine or real; fake or intended to deceive.
See it in a sentence
The salesman's phoney smile and exaggerated promises made several customers uneasy right away.
Police arrested the man for carrying a phoney passport at the border.
A note on using this word
This is the British spelling; American English almost always writes the same word as 'phony.'
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
genuineauthentic
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