Thesaurus / phonies
FEEDBACK- as inliar
- as inpretension
- as inquack
- as inspoof
- as introublemaker
- as inact
- as incharlatan
- as infaker
- as ingrandioseness
- as ingrandiosity
- as inperjurer
- as inphoniness
- as inpompousness
- as inprevaricator
- as input on
- as intartuffe
- as incounterfeit
- as induplicate
- as infacade
- as infake
- as inforgery
- as infraud
- as infront
- as inhypocrite
- as inimitation
- as inimpostor
- as inimposture
- as inlie
- as insimulate
- as incopy
- as incounterfeit
- as induplicate
synonyms for phonies
synonyms for phonies
- conceit
- hypocrisy
- pomposity
- snobbery
- affectation
- charade
- disguise
- fake
- front
- ostentation
- phony
- pretentiousness
- put on
- self-importance
- show
- showboat
- showiness
- splash
- vainglory
- vanity
- big talk
- false front
- actor
- bum
- charlatan
- cheat
- counterfeit
- counterfeiter
- fake
- faker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- humbug
- impostor
- mountebank
- phony
- playactor
- pretender
- pseudo
- put on
- sham
- shammer
- shark
- sharp
- simulator
- slicker
- whip
- bunco artist
- con artist
- flimflammer
- hoser
- quacksalver
- burlesque
- caricature
- parody
- prank
- satire
- bluff
- cheat
- deceit
- deception
- fake
- flim-flam
- game
- hoax
- imposture
- jest
- joke
- lampoon
- phony
- put on
- quip
- sell
- sham
- travesty
- trickery
- wisecrack
- bon mot
- send-up
- takeoff
- agitator
- firebrand
- gremlin
- heel
- hellion
- incendiary
- inciter
- instigator
- meddler
- mischief-maker
- nuisance
- phony
- punk
- rabble-rouser
- rascal
- recreant
- snake
- weasel
- agent provocateur
- bad actor
- inflamer
- loose cannon
- smart aleck
- stormy petrel
- attitude
- performance
- show
- affectation
- bit
- chaser
- dissimilation
- fake
- feigning
- front
- phony
- pose
- posture
- pretense
- put on
- sham
- simulation
- stall
- stance
- stunt
- false front
- shuck and jive
- soft soap
- sweet-talk
- charlatan
- coiner
- counterfeiter
- deceiver
- fabricator
- forger
- fraud
- impersonator
- impostor
- liar
- mountebank
- phony
- pretender
- quack
- shammer
- affectation
- big talk
- charade
- conceit
- disguise
- phoniness
- false front
- front
- grandiosity
- hypocrisy
- ostentation
- phony
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- put on
- self-importance
- show
- showiness
- snobbery
- splash
- vainglory
- affectation
- charade
- conceit
- disguise
- fake
- front
- hypocrisy
- ostentation
- phony
- pomposity
- pompousness
- pretension
- put on
- self-importance
- show
- showboat
- showiness
- snobbery
- splash
- vainglory
- big talk
- false front
- grandioseness
- con artist
- cheat
- deceiver
- dissimulator
- equivocator
- fabricator
- fabulist
- falsifier
- fibber
- maligner
- misleader
- phony
- prevaricator
- promoter
- storyteller
- trickster
- deluder
- fabler
- false witness
- ambidexterity
- ambidextrous
- artificiality
- backhanded
- deceitful
- deceptive
- devious
- disingenuous
- disingenuousness
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- evasive
- faithless
- fake
- false
- hollow
- hypocritical
- lying
- mendacious
- perfidious
- phony
- pretentious
- put on
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- snide
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- untrue
- untruthful
- affectation
- charade
- conceit
- disguise
- fake
- front
- grandiosity
- hypocrisy
- ostentation
- phony
- pomposity
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- put on
- self-importance
- show
- showboat
- showiness
- snobbery
- splash
- vainglory
- vanity
- big talk
- false front
- grandioseness
- cheat
- deceiver
- dissimulator
- equivocator
- fabricator
- fabulist
- falsifier
- fibber
- maligner
- misleader
- perjurer
- phony
- promoter
- storyteller
- trickster
- con artist
- deluder
- fabler
- false witness
- bluff
- cloak
- color
- coloring
- cover
- disguise
- exterior
- face
- fake
- front
- frontage
- gloss
- guise
- look
- mask
- masquerade
- pretense
- pretext
- semblance
- show
- veil
- veneer
- disguisement
- false colors
- false front
- window dressing
- deceiver
- hypocrite
- pretender
- actor
- backslider
- bigot
- bluffer
- casuist
- charlatan
- cheat
- crook
- decoy
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- fake
- faker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- humbug
- impostor
- informer
- malingerer
- masquerader
- mountebank
- pharisee
- phony
- playactor
- poser
- quack
- smoothie
- sophist
- swindler
- trickster
- two-timer
- attitudinizer
- con artist
- lip server
- two-face
- wolf in sheep's clothing
- actor
- bum
- copy
- deceit
- deception
- dummy
- facsimile
- fraud
- gyp
- hoax
- humbug
- imitation
- imposture
- phony
- pseudo
- put on
- reproduction
- sell
- sham
- simulacrum
- bogus
- junque
- carbon copy
- duplication
- photocopy
- replica
- replication
- analogue
- carbon
- clone
- companion
- coordinate
- copycat
- correlate
- counterfeit
- counterpart
- ditto
- double
- dupe
- facsimile
- fake
- fellow
- germination
- imitation
- knockoff
- likeness
- match
- mate
- obverse
- parallel
- phony
- Photostat
- pirate
- reciprocal
- recurrence
- repetition
- ringer
- second
- similarity
- twin
- Xerox
- chip off the old block
- counterscript
- dead ringer
- lookalike
- repro
- spitting image
- stat
- color
- exterior
- front
- veneer
- beard
- bluff
- disguise
- face
- fake
- frontage
- guise
- look
- mask
- phony
- pretense
- put on
- semblance
- show
- false colors
- false front
- window dressing
- counterfeit
- deception
- fabrication
- forgery
- hoax
- phony
- scam
- sham
- trick
- actor
- bluffer
- charlatan
- cheat
- faker
- flimflam
- four-flusher
- fraud
- imitation
- imposition
- imposture
- make believe
- mountebank
- plant
- pretender
- pretense
- pseudo
- put on
- reproduction
- sleight
- spoof
- swindle
- gold brick
- junque
- falsification
- carbon
- cheat
- copy
- fabrication
- fake
- fraudulence
- imitation
- imposition
- imposture
- phony
- pseudo
- sham
- twin
- bogus
- carbon copy
- coining
- faking
- imitating
- lookalike
- workalike
- bastard
- bluffer
- charlatan
- cheat
- counterfeit
- crook
- deceiver
- double-dealer
- fake
- forger
- four-flusher
- hoaxer
- impostor
- mechanic
- mountebank
- phony
- pretender
- quack
- racketeer
- sham
- shark
- swindler
- horse trader
- playactor
- air
- façade
- facade
- face
- presence
- aspect
- bearing
- blind
- carriage
- coloring
- countenance
- cover
- cover-up
- demeanor
- disguise
- display
- expression
- exterior
- fake
- figure
- manner
- mask
- mien
- phony
- port
- pretext
- put on
- show
- veil
- window dressing
- bigot
- charlatan
- crook
- impostor
- phony
- trickster
- actor
- backslider
- bluffer
- casuist
- cheat
- deceiver
- decoy
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- fake
- faker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- humbug
- informer
- malingerer
- masquerader
- mountebank
- pharisee
- poser
- pretender
- quack
- smoothie
- sophist
- swindler
- two-timer
- attitudinizer
- con artist
- lip server
- two-face
- wolf in sheep's clothing
- clone
- impersonation
- impression
- mimicry
- parody
- reflection
- replica
- reproduction
- apery
- copy
- counterfeit
- counterpart
- ditto
- dupe
- duplicate
- duplication
- ersatz
- fake
- forgery
- image
- likeness
- match
- mime
- mimesis
- mockery
- parallel
- phony
- picture
- resemblance
- ringer
- semblance
- sham
- simulacrum
- takeoff
- transcription
- travesty
- Xerox
- aping
- carbon copy
- counterfeiting
- echoing
- matching
- mirroring
- paralleling
- paraphrasing
- parroting
- patterning
- representing
- con artist
- hypocrite
- actor
- beguiler
- bluffer
- charlatan
- cheat
- deceiver
- fake
- faker
- four-flusher
- fraud
- imitator
- impersonator
- masquerader
- mimic
- mocker
- mountebank
- pettifogger
- phony
- pretender
- pseudo
- quack
- scorner
- sham
- sharper
- shyster
- trickster
- empiric
- artifice
- cheat
- con
- copy
- counterfeit
- deceit
- deception
- fabrication
- fake
- feint
- fiddle
- flimflam
- forgery
- gambit
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- illusion
- imitation
- impersonation
- imposition
- make believe
- maneuver
- masquerade
- phony
- ploy
- pretense
- pretension
- put on
- quackery
- ruse
- sell
- sham
- sleight
- spoof
- stratagem
- swindle
- wile
- deceive
- mislead
- misrepresent
- promote
- beguile
- BS
- bull
- con
- concoct
- delude
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distort
- dupe
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- fabricate
- fake
- falsify
- fib
- forswear
- frame
- fudge
- invent
- malign
- misguide
- misinform
- misspeak
- misstate
- overdraw
- palter
- perjure
- pervert
- phony
- plant
- prevaricate
- snow
- soft-soap
- victimize
- bear false witness
- be untruthful
- break promise
- go back on
- make believe
- misinstruct
- put on
- put up a front
- string along
- affect
- mimic
- replicate
- reproduce
- resemble
- act
- ape
- assume
- bluff
- borrow
- cheat
- concoct
- copy
- counterfeit
- crib
- deceive
- disguise
- dissemble
- do
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- fabricate
- fake
- favor
- feature
- feign
- fence
- invent
- lie
- lift
- mirror
- misrepresent
- pirate
- play
- playact
- pose
- prevaricate
- steal
- act like
- do a take-off
- do like
- gloss over
- knock off
- make believe
- phony
- put on
- put on an act
- emulate
- illustrate
- mimic
- pirate
- repeat
- simulate
- steal
- ape
- burlesque
- do
- echo
- embody
- epitomize
- fake
- follow
- incarnate
- mirror
- mock
- model
- parody
- parrot
- personify
- phony
- prefigure
- sham
- travesty
- typify
- act like
- do a take-off
- do like
- follow example
- follow suit
- go like
- knock off
- make like
- play a role
- take leaf out of book
- take off
- fabricate
- affect
- ape
- assume
- bluff
- carbon
- cheat
- clone
- coin
- copy
- defraud
- delude
- ditto
- do
- dupe
- fake
- feign
- forge
- imitate
- impersonate
- mimeo
- mimic
- mint
- phony
- pretend
- sham
- simulate
- Xerox
- act like
- circulate bad money
- do like
- go like
- knock off
- make like
- make money
- phony up
- put on
- stat
- clone
- copy
- imitate
- mirror
- replicate
- reproduce
- counterfeit
- ditto
- double
- dupe
- echo
- fake
- manifold
- mimeo
- multiply
- phony
- photocopy
- Photostat
- pirate
- redo
- redouble
- reduplicate
- remake
- rework
- trace
- Xerox
- act like
- do again
- do a takeoff
- do like
- dualize
- go like
- knock off
- make like
- make replica
- make twofold
- repro
- stat
- take off as
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On this page you'll find 1045 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to phonies, such as: cheat, con artist, perjurer, phony, storyteller, and deceiver.
How to use phonies in a sentence
If your idea pays off, Tom, we should be able to checkmate every move those phonies and their allies make!
TOM SWIFT AND THE VISITOR FROM PLANET XVICTOR APPLETONAnyway, I wouldn't blame her, after the exhibition I made the other night, for classin' me with the phonies.
SHORTY MCCABESEWELL FORD