phony
Noun
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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 (synset 110215212)
is a type of: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster - someone who leads you to believe something that is not truesubtypes:
- charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker - someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
- tartufe, tartuffe - a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
- whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre - a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
Adjective
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Fraudulent;
Having a misleading appearance (synset 301121219)similar to: counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior
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