单词 | phoniness |
释义 | phoninessn. Originally U.S. The state or quality of being phoney or fake; deceitfulness; insincerity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [noun] hollow-heartedness1549 bias drawinga1616 unsincerity1646 hollowness1648 unsincereness1683 insinceritya1699 phoniness1910 1910 Nevada State Jrnl. 21 Feb. 3/5 The cleanest wrestling match that has been given the public of Reno in years, and one without a suggestion of a taint of ‘goosegrease’ wrestling or other ‘phoniness’ about it. 1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 212 You felt a sort of phoneyness in your power. 1976 T. Gifford Cavanaugh Quest (1977) iii. 51 Tim didn't have any phoniness about him; he was what we used to call a regular guy. 1999 New Yorker 27 Dec. 37/2 There is..an alarming phoneyness about these arrangements of numerals: such a spurious-sounding cycle must surely fall down of its own unwieldy improbability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910 |
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