Phoniness

Word PHONINESS
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Definitions and meanings of "Phoniness"

What do we mean by phoniness?

The condition or quality of being phony or fake.

Holden Caulfield's favorite insult, an old way of saying poser. Urban Dictionary

Anyone who takes the effort to look or act differently than they normally would to impress others. Usually very embarrassing to watch, though entertaining if it is someone you don't like. Almost always obvious. Urban Dictionary

Somebody who pretends to be something else. It's like a bad actor. Urban Dictionary

Something that isnt what it actually is, or someone pretending to be someone they are not. Urban Dictionary

Fake, not real, a lie Urban Dictionary

A kind of person, usually very stupid. Usually wears Abercrombie, Hollister, and American Eagle to fit in. Very materialistic and superficial.The boys act tough and strong and the girls act ditzy and slutty. Very hard to go to school with or even just to talk to. Basically everybody at school. Urban Dictionary

Something that isn't what it seems or tries to be something it isn't, or tries to be part of the system. Like two bad actors. Until they taser you, in the butt. No one wants your autograph, phonies! Urban Dictionary

Phony ; Slang = punk ass bitch A phony is a person, typically in high school or college, but they can be anywhere, who openly judges people, spreading half truths, falsehoods or disseminating personal information (i.e. Gossip) in exchange for advancing their social statuses and continuing the repression of certain things in your subconscious that lead you to feel the need to denigrate people (such as repressing sexual confusion by harassing students who are gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual.) The only way a phony is rehabilitated is through karma, where the alienation and defamation they've forced on those who do nothing to deserve it bites them in the ass, whether because they've learned they can't get a job just by appealing to the baser instincts of insecure people and selling out your friends, when the suffering they have incurred on others leads their victims to lead miserable lives which often end up cut short, and when they go past college age, can no longer use their popularity to wiggle away from Johnny law. These struggles then lead phonies to realize the extent of how much they have hurt other people for petty reasons and then decide to come to terms with what they have repressed. Urban Dictionary

A person that's all bark and no bite. Urban Dictionary

1. false 2. someone or something false Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Phoniness

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The word "phoniness" in example sentences

More political phoniness from the Palin camp. prairiedale ❋ Unknown (2009)

When, on several occasions, McGregor stares at possibly incriminating photos of Lang from his moppish days at university, the Photoshop work on display is supposed to be cheeky, but instead the phoniness is awful. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And I think he spotted what a lot of -- a lot of other people have now begun to spot in our prime minister, Mr. Blair, that dreadful phoniness, which is one of the very important developments of modern politics, an -- an emp ... ❋ Unknown (2000)

Pantages or someplace, and she'd be draped in fur and wearing diamond-studded sunglasses (signifiers of phoniness in other words) and would say how much she wanted to thank "all the little people" out there without whom her career would have been impossible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For Biden, the story encapsulated all the "phoniness" of the endless debate of America's role overseas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many young people go through a Walden phase, believing that Thoreau and, in "Self-Reliance," Emerson saw through to the realities of life, past the "phoniness" that so obsessed Holden Caulfield. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That this is part of a LARGER PATTERN that extends way back ... for example, to the 20-month long assault on Al Gore's "phoniness". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clinton's various efforts over the years to become a neutral figure only made her more polarizing by adding "phoniness" to the list of charges against her. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Holden Caulfield, the caustic protagonist at the heart of the story, inspired writers and artist wannabes to reject the "phoniness" of consumer culture and its stifling complacency in their search for authenticity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rush was trying to draw an analogy between "the Media" s silence about the "phoniness" of Tiger Wood's image and the "phoniness" of Barack Obama's image. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be [the catcher in the rye] and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." -Holden [Caulfield]. Here he expresses how he'd like to stop people from beocming [phony] as they grow up. ❋ Ivan Martinez Autin (2006)

1. You ought to go to a boy's school sometimes. Try it sometime. It's full of [phonies], and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. The guys that are on the basketball team stick together, the goddam intellectuals stick together, the guys that play bridge stick together. Even the guys that belong to the goddam Book-of-the-Month Club stick together. 2. "Fuck. I fucking hate them [fucking shitty] ass phonies. [Fuck them all]." "Shut up, phony." ❋ Clockwrist (2008)

Jerry: Use it in a sentence. Mike: Man, that [Michael Jordan] is so [phony]. (to [Kramer]) Why'd you tell him?!? ❋ ALKOHOL (2004)

[Ryan Smith] is a phony. ❋ Dick_Darlington (2004)

Jacob tried to sell me a phony [Rolex] watch. [Marcus] told a phony story about how he stole a Caddilac [Escalade]. ❋ Knowledge (2003)

[Everybody] is a [goddamn] phony. ❋ Meshack (2007)

Fell to the ground The [phonies] didn't [let up] Tasin' on my butthole over and over I was screamin' and squirmin' My butthole was on fire. - Phony = [Elijah Wood] and Ben Affleck. ❋ The Lonely Islands (2012)

Man, that douchebag is such a [phony], selling himself and his friends [down the river] for some temporarily [boosted] social status. ❋ Guess6667 (2011)

He's such a phony, [he says] he's a [pyro] but he's actually scared [of fire]. ❋ Xtine Max (2004)

This [Drivers] [licence] is Phony. ❋ Light Joker (2006)

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