Phony

Definitions

1. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
   informal
2. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
   informal
3. Anything fraudulent or fake.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.”

“What a deal⟳ that was. You never saw⟳ so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play⟳ so that everybody could hear⟳ and know⟳ how sharp they were.”

“He's such a phony, he doesn't believe⟳ half of what he says.”

“One name⟳ was a phony, but the other was the true name⟳. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.”

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