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[ US /ˈfoʊni/ ]
[ UK /fˈə‍ʊni/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  1. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

How To Use phony In A Sentence

  • There is a constant cacophony of owl hoots and rustling rats. Times, Sunday Times
  • It avoids a phony moral high ground or fake appeals to the sanctity of multilateralism. Globe and Mail
  • Tracking sports 'online cacophony is tricky enough when just focusing on league websites. NBC's Michaels making Olympic Games comeback
  • Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
  • But isn't there also a growing problem with counterfeit phony drugs, pharmaceuticals, as well?
  • They call this chin music, the symphony of the jugular. The Sun
  • Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly.
  • Unlike his usual style, the symphony ends with an adagio that includes some of the most anguished music he ever composed.
  • The symphony begins with an introduction where ideas jostle against and interrupt one another.
  • His work now goes beyond regular online advertising into other media such as mobile telephony and e-mail.
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