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(adj)
(chiefly British) Alternative form of phony. [(informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.]
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Not real; false, fraudulent.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
(n)
Someone who dissembles.
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
Imitating; copying; not original.
Fake or artificial.
Intended to deceive; false.
Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
A person who frequently lies; someone who tells a lie.
False, not authentic, not genuine.
Dishonest; based on fraud or deception.
A fraudulent deal.
An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
(v)
(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
The claim or pretense of having beliefs, standards, qualities, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not really have.
To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.
An absurd, grotesque, misrepresentative or grossly inferior likeness or imitation.
Invented; contrived.
One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
Containing an error; inaccurate.
Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
Incorrect or untrue.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
(of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
(colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
False; not true.
(slang, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A transgender person, especially a trans woman.
An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
(uncountable, chiefly US, slang) Nonsense.
Being a pretense, simulation, or counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
(slang) Nonauthentic, but made to appear so; falsely authentic.
Deceptive or misleading.
(obsolete) fraudulent; pretending to be someone else
Falsely assembled; faked.
Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
Supposed or presumed.
(archaic) fraudulent.
Faked, fabricated or falsely manufactured.
(obsolete, rare) false; specious; counterfeit
feigned; counterfeit
Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
Contrived; dishonestly formulated so as to appear authentic.
Likely or attempting to deceive.
(archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
(countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick.
Of a person, self-styled, self-proclaimed, with implications of pretence or dishonesty.
False in the sense of made-up, constructed.
Created by humans; artificial.
Not veracious; untruthful; false.
(informal) Involving cheating; fraudulent.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Demonstrated to be false.
Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
Deliberately misleading or cheating.
Alternative spelling of imposterous. [(obsolete) fraudulent; pretending to be someone else]
mocking
Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
(nonstandard, malapropism) Alternative form of misleading. [Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.]
(of an email) Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.
Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
(proscribed) Disingenuous.
(obsolete) Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake.
Involving both hands.
(archaic) deceptive
(informal) Of or relating to a reconciliation.
Spoken or claimed but not actually believed; insincere.
Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake.
Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
Having a superficial appearance of according with the legal profession but in reality lacking competence in it or flouting its values.
Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
(programming) Evaluating to false in a Boolean context.
deceptive
(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
A scam, ploy, fraud, trick.
A poseur; one who is fake.
Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Seeming or presented to be correct, but actually incorrect.
Dishonest; deceitful.
Characteristic of a sham; deceitful
Employing or relating to deception; deceptive.
Committing imposture.
Using tricks or trickery.
(logic) Having a false basis.
Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.