| 词汇 | phoney |
| 释义 | phoney adjective informaldisapproving(US alsophony)uk /ˈfəʊ.ni/ us /ˈfoʊ.ni/phonier | phoniest not sincere or not real: 虚伪的;假冒的，伪造的 All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile.所有推销员的微笑似乎都一样，假惺惺的。 He gave the police a phoney address.他给了警察一个假地址。 Synonyms bogus fake false(NOT TRUE) Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial feyness forced forcedly fustian glib piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Faking & pretending phoney noun[ C ] informaldisapproving(US alsophony)uk /ˈfəʊ.ni/ us /ˈfoʊ.ni/ someone who is not sincere or not what they claim to be: I don't trust him - I think he's a phoney. Why can't you see he's a phoney? Synonyms fake(PERSON OR OBJECT) pseudUKinformaldisapproving She would have to admit she was a phoney. You're not a proper actor, you're a phoney. Voters can smell phoneys a mile away. Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial feyness forced forcedly fustian glib piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Faking & pretending Examples of phoneyphoney The war of words between the 'old enemies', played out on the wartime and immediate postwar political and media stages, was essentially a phoney war. When will the moment come when we feel like sticking plasters of protest onto all those phoney phrases? She is currently in the shell shocked but still "phoney war" stage. Women were responsible both for producing phoney accounts of the war and for popularizing them ; the inauthentic war-text derives from the sentimental female literary tradition so popular before the war. When the phoney contextualism of the colonial style came along the spell was broken and the diner manufacturers woke up to the real nature of their product. A far better target for a critique of phoney 'authenticity', for at least the mainstream of popular music, is that an artist has to be troubled. We all know this is a phoney parliament, but this demonstrates just how pointless it is. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In reality, a conditional censure is a phoney censure. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am referring first of all to the phoney debate on gelatine. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am quite deliberately saying product counterfeiter, rather than refer to a peddler of phoney products, which sounds very harsh. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Is it not very clear that if they do not agree to verification of the kind that is simple and right then they are phoneys—that's all, just phoneys? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hate these double negatives: they sound "phoney" to me, and in this particular case they always have done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am told by some of the providers that there has been no phoney business and no bunching up of contracts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I referred to these "phoney" cars built in backyards, not to the general run of cars. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With all respect to the motor industry, not all "phoney" cars are built in backyards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of phoney These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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