phony

偽物の、偽りの

本物や誠実なものに見せかけているが、実際は偽りの。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： fake, false, bogus

反対語： real, genuine

よく使う表現： phony excuse, phony smile, phony documents

ペテン師、偽善者

別人のふりをしたり、持っていない資質や技能があるように装ったりする人。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： fraud, fake, impostor

よく使う表現： a complete phony, expose a phony, such a phony

偽善者

本当は信じていない考えを、信じているように装う人。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： hypocrite, faker

よく使う表現： a complete phony, such a phony, expose a phony