Nearby Words
| Main Entry: |
phoniness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insincerity |
| Synonyms: | ambidexterity, ambidextrous, artificiality, backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, disingenuousness, dissembling, dissimulating, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake*, false, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony*, pretentious, put-on, shifty, slick*, sly*, snide, two-faced, unfaithful, untrue, untruthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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