phony
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PHONY, kitch and camp are examples of a useful phenomenon: every so often a word breezes into common usage meaning many things and weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category.
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Vocabulary lists containing phony
Fake It 'Til You Make It: Synonyms for "False"
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The Catcher in the Rye
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"Sorry, Wrong Number," Vocabulary from the play
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