1. Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
   "A claim can be considered phony, or false, when the speaker promises too much";
   - bogus, fake, phoney, cod [Brit, informal]

1. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
   "The politician was labeled a phony when his actions contradicted his public statements";
   - hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, pretender

Derived forms: phonies, phonier, phoniest

See also: counterfeit, imitative

Type of: deceiver, slicker [informal], trickster

Encyclopedia: Phony