Crossword-Solution: PHONY 5 letters, 70 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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PHONY anagram HYPNO

We have 70 clues for the answer “PHONY”

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Like a gold brick. 1 answer
61 Bogus 1 answer
Adjective for a $3 bill 1 answer
Apt rhyme for "baloney" 1 answer
False: Slang. 1 answer
Four-flusher's pal. 1 answer
Frequent insult in "The Catcher in the Rye" 1 answer
Hypocrite, e.g. 1 answer
Hypocrite, say 1 answer
Imposter: Slang. 1 answer
Inauthentic 1 answer
Insincere one 1 answer
Like a three dollar bill 1 answer
Like so-called "Monopoly money" 1 answer
Like some ID 1 answer
Like stage money 1 answer
Fake or counterfeit, as in personality 1 answer
Not genuine: Slang. 1 answer
One full of baloney 1 answer
Person who's all pretense 1 answer
Total fake 2 answers
In a fake way 2 answers
Insincere type 2 answers
Spurious: Slang. 2 answers
Like a $3 bill 3 answers
Hokey 3 answers
Not legit 4 answers
Like a three-dollar bill 4 answers
Knockoff 5 answers
Four-flusher 5 answers
Concocted 9 answers
A QUACK REMEDY 10 answers
BUTTER BOGUS 10 answers
BOGUS BUTTER 10 answers
BEACH IMPOSTOR 10 answers
CONDESCENDING person 14 answers
Crocodile tears? 14 answers
ARROGATOR 17 answers
Not genuine 18 answers
Impostor 19 answers
Ersatz 23 answers
Pretentious person 23 answers
DOUBLE-faced person 24 answers
Poser 25 answers
Deceiving 27 answers
tongue in cheek 41 answers
Plastic. 43 answers
Unauthentic 43 answers
fraudulent 45 answers
Faker 45 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PHONY (5)

Phony, and scatter your pieces far and wide over the country, as a matter of kindness to the people you might meet if allowed to run around loose.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz L. Frank Baum 1997
You want to get light tan shoes and a black suit and a straw hat with a colored band, and talk a good deal about Pittsburg and freight differentials, and drink sherry for breakfast in order to work off phony stuff like that.” “What’s his line?” asked two or three shifty-eyed men of “Bunco Harry” after Haylocks had gathered up his impugned money and departed.
Strictly Business O. Henry 2000
Overlaying the natural Man they created an artificial Man, either ecclesiastic or laic, noble or commoner, sovereign or subject, proprietor or proletary, ignorant or cultivated, peasant or citizen, slave or master, all being phony qualities which we are not to heed, as their origin is tainted with violence and robbery.
The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) Hippolyte A. Taine 2017
All that I had to do with it was go and crack the safe and get the records, which I was to throw in the river, and keep the money for myself, but the frame-up on the other guy was to send him a phony message that would get him at the plant after I got through, and then notify the police so they could catch him there in the room with the cracked safe.
The Efficiency Expert Edgar Rice Burroughs 2002
And him a Marquis! Ain't that a title, Phony?" "It's somethin' like a king," the Brushy Creek Kid hastened to explain, "only lower in the deck.
Rolling Stones O. Henry 2001

Quotes with PHONY (3)

She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.''Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home wi…
Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary
Everywhere I look I see people doing their best to make sense of this overwhelming reality, and to be kind, authentic human beings despite the many invitations we all receive to be phony, unkind assholes. Sometimes their best doesn’t look like much to me, and I remind myself that my best doesn’t look like much a lot of the time, too. I empathize. We’re all human, and we’re all struggling. Every single one of us, every single day. It’s not my job to police the paths of others,…
Scott Stabile
Religious faith is by nature the most fundamental set of beliefs that one can have. It is how a believer views the world, and is how the believer judges himself as well as the other people, things, and events in that world. It colors everything about them. It is for this reason that people who adopt a faith out of convenience appear so phony, and why it is simply not possible for an individual to have a "religion d'jour.
Mike Klepper
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 78 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).