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US
/ˈfoʊni/
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[ UK /fˈəʊni/ ]
[ UK /fˈəʊni/ ]
NOUN
- 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
- 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.