Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Noun
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold
Adjective S.
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Usage Examples
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
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Other Usage ExamplesI love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.