phony

faux, bidon

Qui donne l’impression d’être vrai ou sincère, mais ne l’est pas.

En anglais simple : Made to seem real or honest, although it is false.

• That diamond is phony.
• He gave us a phony name.
• She saw through his phony concern.

Synonymes : fake, false, bogus

Contraires : real, genuine

Expressions courantes : phony excuse, phony smile, phony documents

imposteur, charlatan

Personne qui se fait passer pour quelqu’un d’autre ou prétend avoir des qualités ou des compétences qu’elle n’a pas.

En anglais simple : Someone who pretends to be a different person or to have qualities or skills they do not have.

• He's a phony, not a doctor.
• She exposed the expert as a phony.
• Those phonies pretended to care about our problems.

Synonymes : fraud, fake, impostor

Expressions courantes : a complete phony, expose a phony, such a phony

hypocrite, imposteur

Personne qui prétend croire à des choses auxquelles elle ne croit pas vraiment.

En anglais simple : Someone who pretends to believe things they do not really believe.

• He is a phony.
• She called him a phony for praising ideas he secretly hated.
• Those phonies only pretend to care about the poor.

Synonymes : hypocrite, faker

Expressions courantes : a complete phony, such a phony, expose a phony