Synonyms of the word

phony

• adj. Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
• n. A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
• n. A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.

bastard

• n. A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
• n. A mongrel. A biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.
• n. (vulgar, referring to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person…
• n. (often humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
• n. (often preceded by 'poor') A person deserving of pity.
• n. (informal) A child who does not know his or her father.
• n. (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
• n. A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
• n. An intermediate-grade file; also bastard file.
• n. A sweet wine.
• n. A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
• n. An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
• n. A large mould for straining sugar.
• n. A writing paper of a particular size.
• n. (Britain, politics, pejorative) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
• adj. of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
• adj. of or like a bastard (bad person).
• adj. of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
• adj. of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc.).
• adj. spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
• adj. (Britain, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
• adj. (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
• adj. (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color;…
• interj. (rare, vulgar) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.
• v. (obsolete) To bastardize.

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

bogus

• adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
• adj. Undesirable or harmful.
• adj. (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
• adj. (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
• n. (US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

counterfeit

• adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
• adj. Inauthentic.
• adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
• n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
• n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
• n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
• n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
• v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand…

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

dissembler

• n. someone who dissembles.

dissimulator

• n. One who dissimulates.

fake

• adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
• adj. Deliberately fabricated in order to deceive.
• n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
• n. A trick; a swindle.
• n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling…
• v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
• v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
• v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
• v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
• n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or…
• v. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers…

hypocrite

• n. Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with…

imitative

• adj. Imitating; copying; not original.
• adj. Modelled after another thing.

phoney

• adj. Alternative form of phony, chiefly British.
• n. Alternative form of phony.

pretender

• n. A person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold.
• n. A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).