phony

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈfoʊni/

Noun

informal

(informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. / (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. / (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.

Japanese Meaning

自分自身ではない人物になりすます人 / 本来持っていない信念や意見をあたかも持っているかのように振る舞う人 / 詐欺的な、または偽物やでっち上げであるもの

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Everyone at the party could tell he was a phony, pretending to be a successful entrepreneur.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

パーティーの皆は彼が成りすましだと見抜き、成功した起業家を装っていた。

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Sense（1）

(informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.

He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.

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Sense（2）

(informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.

He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.

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Sense（3）

(informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.

One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.

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phonies

（ plural ）

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