Definition of "phoney" [pho•ney]

• Variant of phony. (adjective)

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• "Stray too far into condemning what he called 'phoney human rights concerns' and Cameron will damage his claim to be a different kind of Tory."
• "Daily Mail says the cut and thrust that used to characterise elections has all but disappeared in what it calls a phoney, heavily stage-managed contest."
• "What this means is that we need to expose what I call the phoney anti-capitalism of environmentalists and anti-globalisationists."