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
