phoniness / ˈfoʊ ni /

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phoniness3 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est.

  1. not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  2. false or deceiving; not truthful; concocted: a phony explanation.
  3. insincere or deceitful; affected or pretentious: a phony sales representative.
n. 名词 noun

plural pho·nies.

  1. something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
  2. an insincere, pretentious, or deceitful person: He thought my friends were a bunch of phonies.
v. 有主动词 verb

pho·nied, pho·ny·ing.

  1. to falsify; counterfeit; fabricate: to phony up a document.

phoniness 近义词

n. 名词 noun

insincerity

n. 名词 noun

hypocrisy

更多phoniness例句

  1. 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.
  2. If advertisers found out they were being billed for phony clicks, that would of course undermine confidence in the online ad business.
  3. 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.
  4. Fortunately, there are tools and strategies savvy travelers can use to spot the phonies.
  5. It’s surprisingly easy to dress up phony science as the real thing by simply adopting, or appearing to adopt, the trappings of science.
  6. He was going nuts with frustration in the face of what he considered to be phoniness and untruth.