phoneyadjective
phonier, phoniest informal disapproving US also phony uk/ˈfəʊ.ni/us/ˈfoʊ.ni/not sincere or not real:
All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile.
He gave the police a phoney address.
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- fey
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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Faking & pretending
phoney
noun [ C ] ukus
I don't trust him - I think he's a phoney.