Definitions For Phoney

noun

  • 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

adjective

  • Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

verb

  • A person who pretends to be someone else or to have feelings or abilities that he or she does not really have : a person who is not sincere
  • Something that is not real or genuine

Is Phoneys a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
15
Words with Friends
15

The word Phoney is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Phoney in a Sentence

  • A phony watch with a designer logo
  • She always has this phony smile just before she betrays you
  • According to him, politics is full of phonies.
  • I don't think she ever meant to help us. What a phony!
  • The terrorists were able to move around the country using phonied driver's licenses

Synonyms for Phoney

Antonyms for Phoneys

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