LekhoriLekhoriFraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.
A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.
Of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of fawny (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).
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Anything fraudulent or fake.
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.