phony

falso, finto

Fatto apparire vero o sincero, anche se è falso.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: fake, false, bogus

Contrari: real, genuine

Espressioni comuni: phony excuse, phony smile, phony documents

impostore, fasullo

Persona che finge di essere qualcun altro o di avere qualità o capacità che non possiede.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: fraud, fake, impostor

Espressioni comuni: a complete phony, expose a phony, such a phony

ipocrita, impostore

Persona che finge di credere in cose in cui non crede davvero.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: hypocrite, faker

Espressioni comuni: a complete phony, such a phony, expose a phony