phoniness 的 3 个定义
pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est.
- not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- false or deceiving; not truthful; concocted: a phony explanation.
- insincere or deceitful; affected or pretentious: a phony sales representative.
plural pho·nies.
- something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
- an insincere, pretentious, or deceitful person: He thought my friends were a bunch of phonies.
pho·nied, pho·ny·ing.
- to falsify; counterfeit; fabricate: to phony up a document.
phoniness 近义词
insincerity
phoniness 的近义词 33 个
hypocrisy
phoniness 的近义词 33 个
- affectation
- bad faith
- bigotry
- cant
- casuistry
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- display
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- false profession
- falsity
- fraud
- glibness
- imposture
- insincerity
- irreverence
- lie
- lip service
- mockery
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
- pietism
- quackery
- sanctimoniousness
- sanctimony
- speciousness
- tartuffery
- two-facedness
- unctuousness
更多phoniness例句
- In 1999, the SEC filed a civil complaint alleging that four Southern California men had joined in a scheme to manipulate the stock of a bankrupt commercial printer company by spreading phony takeover rumors on the Web.
- If advertisers found out they were being billed for phony clicks, that would of course undermine confidence in the online ad business.
- Homeland Security Investigations started using its 7,000 agents in tandem with border, FDA and FBI officials to investigate scams, seize phony products and arrest hundreds of people.
- Fortunately, there are tools and strategies savvy travelers can use to spot the phonies.
- It’s surprisingly easy to dress up phony science as the real thing by simply adopting, or appearing to adopt, the trappings of science.
- He was going nuts with frustration in the face of what he considered to be phoniness and untruth.