OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 15454

phony

/ˈfoʊni/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
falaz • falso • fraudulento • mendaz
Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
[…] one wonders whether the function of statistical techniques in the social sciences is not primarily to provide a machinery for producing phoney corroborations and thereby a semb…
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