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Showing words for PHONINESS using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Phoniness

phoniness

8 Letter Words for Phoniness

pensions, phonesis, snipnose, sphenion

7 Letter Words for Phoniness

espinos, hipness, isoneph, neossin, pension, phonies, pinsons, sension, shinnes, siphons, sonnies, sonship, sophies, spinose

6 Letter Words for Phoniness

enosis, eosins, espino, essoin, hoises, inness, inshoe, noesis, noises, noshes, nosies, nosine, opines, opsins, ossein, pennis, phenin, pheons, phones, phosis, pinons, pinson, pishes, poesis, poises, ponies, poshes, posies, possie, psions, sepion, sepsin, shines, shinne, siphon, snipes, sonnes, sonsie, sophis, spines

5 Letter Words for Phoniness

ensis, eosin, ephoi, eshin, hesps, hoise, hones, hopes, hopis, hosen, hoses, hsien, inone, insep, ishes, neons, nihon, nines, ninos, nisse, nohes, noise, nones, nopes, noses, oenin, opens, opine, opsin, penis, penni, peons, pesos, pheon, phies, phone, phons, phose, phoss, pines, pinon, pions, pisos, poise, pones, poses, posse, psion, senso, shies, shine, shins, ships, shisn, shoes, shone, shope, shops, siens, sines, sinhs, sinon, sipes, sison, snies, snipe, snips, sones, sonne, sonse, sophi, sophs, sosie, speos, spies, spine, spins, spise, sposh

4 Letter Words for Phoniness

eons, epos, esop, hens, heps, hesp, hies, hine, hins, hipe, hips, hisn, hiss, hoes, hoin, hone, hons, hope, hopi, hops, hose, hosp, hoss, inne, inns, insp, ions, ipse, ipso, isos, nein, neon, neps, nesh, ness, nies, nine, nips, noes, none, nope, nose, nosh, ones, open, opes, oses, osse, peho, pehs, peni, pens, peon, peso, pess, phis, phon, phos, pien, pies, pine, pino, pins, pion, pise, pish, piso, piss, pohs, pois, pone, pons, pose, posh, poss, psis, seis, sens, sepn, seps, shes, shin, ship, shoe, shop, sien, sine, sinh, sins, sion, sipe, sips, sise, sish, snip, snop, sone, sons, sope, soph, sops, sosh, spie, spin

3 Letter Words for Phoniness

ehs, ens, eon, eos, epi, esp, ess, hei, hen, heo, hep, hes, hie, hin, hip, his, hoe, hoi, hon, hop, hos, ihp, ihs, inn, ins, ion, ios, iph, ipo, ips, ise, ish, isn, iso, nei, neo, nep, nie, nip, nis, nne, noh, non, nos, oes, ohs, oie, ois, one, oni, ons, ope, ops, ose, osi, peh, pen, pes, phi, pho, pie, pin, pis, poh, poi, pon, pos, psi, sei, sen, sep, she, shi, sho, shp, sie, sin, sip, sis, son, sop, sps, sse, ssh, ssp

Definitions for Phoniness

[1] not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
[2] false or deceiving; not truthful; concocted: a phony explanation.
[3] insincere or deceitful; affected or pretentious: a phony sales representative.
[4] something that is phony; a counterfeit or fake.
[5] an insincere, pretentious, or deceitful person: He thought my friends were a bunch of phonies.
[6] to falsify; counterfeit; fabricate (often followed by up ): to phony up a document.
[7] a variant spelling (esp US) of phoney

Words related to Phoniness

phonyambidexterity, ambidextrous, artificiality, backhanded, deceitful, deceptive, devious, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, duplicitous, evasive, faithless, fake, hollow, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, phony

Words nearby Phoniness

phonyphonoscope, phonotactic, phonotactics, phonotype, phonotypy, phony, phony disease, phony war, phony-baloney, phooey, phorate

Origin of Phoniness

y1895–1900; perhaps alteration and respelling of fawney (slang) finger ring (< Irish fsptáinne ), if taken to mean “false” in the phrase fawney rig a confidence game in which a brass ring is sold as a gold one

Other words from Phoniness

pho·ni·ly , adverb
pho·ni·ness , noun

Synonyms for Phoniness

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