Phony vs Forgery - What's the difference?
phony | forgery |
Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
The act of forging metal into shape.
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The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
(lb) An invention, creation.
As nouns the difference between phony and forgery
is that phony is a person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own while forgery is the act of forging metal into shape.As an adjective phony
is fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.phony
English
Alternative forms
* phoneyAdjective
(er)- A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
Synonyms
* (fraudulent) bogus, counterfeit, fake * See alsoAntonyms
* authentic * genuineDerived terms
* phoniness * phoneynessNoun
(phonies)- He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony .
- He's such a phony , he doesn't believe half of what he says.
