phony的意思|phony的解释-里氏词典

phony ['fәuni]

n. 假货, 假冒者, 赝品

a. 伪造的, 假的, 不可信的, 华而不实的

phony
phonier, phoniest

[ noun ]

a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

<adj.all>

phoney \pho"ney\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), a. [Also spelled {phony}.]
[Compar. {phonier}; superl. {phoniest}.]
1. imitating something superior; intended to deceive;
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine;
counterfeit; fake; as, a phoney diamond; a phoney
hundred-dollar bill.

Syn: bogus, counterfeit, fake.
[PJC]

2. pretending to be other than one is; putting on false
appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people.
[PJC]

phoney \pho"ney\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), n.
something or someone that is phony. [Also spelled {phony}.]
[PJC]

phony \pho"ny\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), a. [Also spelled {phoney}.]
[Compar. {phonier}; superl. {phoniest}.]
1. imitating something superior; intended to deceive;
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance; not genuine;
counterfeit; fake; as, a phony diamond; a phony
hundred-dollar bill.

Syn: bogus, counterfeit, fake.
[PJC]

2. pretending to be other than one is; putting on false
appearances; insincere; hypocritical; -- of people.
[PJC]

phony \pho"ny\ (f[=o]"n[=e]), n.
something or someone that is phony. [Also spelled {phoney}.]
[PJC]

One of the photographers' schemes involves the invention of a phony photo "stringer" named Growald.
Last May, after an investigation, U.S. postal inspectors began collecting mail addressed to the phony companies and subsequently issued a cease-and-desist order.
Arrests began in Los Angeles in February, where federal agents charged that large amounts of money was being laundered through jewelry dealers who allegedly used phony gold shipments to cover the transactions.
The commission also said it received two phony bomb threats Wednesday and Tuesday, adding that they had not disrupted operation of the waterway.
Investigators believe that Gardner also discussed doing phony paperwork to bill the costs to the Pentagon, NBC said.
For instance, they simply flooded the airwaves with many new transmission sources and much new traffic, both phony and real, overwhelming American and British intelligence-processing capacities.
Wickes had determined in its investigation of the carpet matter that some Collins & Aikman employees, since fired, had a practice of sending phony carpet samples to an independent laboratory for testing.
A dozen shareholder lawsuits have been filed in federal court in Denver in recent months, charging, in the words of the first of them, that MiniScribe "engineered phony 'sales'" to artificially inflate its stock to benefit insiders.
Mr. Gilliam said Mr. Pierce didn't know the letter was phony.
Dukakis and his wife joked about a comment by Bush's wife, Barbara, that the public affection between the Dukakises was phony.
Federal prosecutors are seeking a "substantial" prison sentence for the former head of Beech-Nut Corp., who was convicted of distributing phony apple juice for babies, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
As part of its marketing campaign, the company frequently sent out phony jury-duty and property-tax notices to the "property owners."
At Mr. Milken's direction, he had helped client Columbia Savings & Loan evade taxes through phony trades.
But they would have been fricasseed in an hour inside the factory-made canvas tepee that marks the village, and they didn't wear phony stainless-steel greaves and threefoot peacock plumes on their heads, as the Indian dancers here are doing.
A national conference on health fraud recently warned that purveyors of phony AIDS treatments will take in $1 billion this year.
Ten years ago: The FBI's "Abscam" political corruption probe came to light with reports that undercover agents had posed as businessmen offering bribes on behalf of a phony Arab sheik.
The 68-year-old businessman also faces broader federal criminal charges of bank fraud, including allegations that he set up phony land deals designed to show false profits at Lincoln.
British police charged a former London official of Bank of Boston with an attempted fraud involving $22.9 million by issuing phony bank guarantees.
Then, GE paid a $1.04 million fine and reimbursed the government for $800,000 in phony charges.
"Now, with none of that phony money around, you get back to the real-money people.
Potted phony floral arrangements were everywhere, and there was a 7-foot-tall climbing bougainvillea and a miniature piano with silk flowers.
Ferro said Mrs. Fajardo used phony documents to enter the country illegally in 1985 and that an immigration judge ruled last summer that she and her two children by another marriage should be deported.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Leon Patton, Lyons liked to distribute a phony issue of Pentagon Gazette with a picture of himself on the cover in a general's uniform.
After that date, Hoyvald said, he relied on the advice of four attorneys in allowing continued distribution of the phony juice. According to the government, the product contained little or no apple juice.
Time and again, the Germans infiltrated her operation by planting phony fliers.
Using the tax agreement, the government claims, Keating and his associates funneled $94 million in federally insured deposits out of Lincoln as deferred taxes, much of it on phony profits from sham land deals.
The funds were funneled through phony investors and shell companies with no assets to inside investors of penny-stock firms, according to allegations in the documents.
"This is not going to be an educational institution," said striking history professor Michael Harris. "It's going to be a phony.
The state accuses the insurance industry of seeking to create a phony "insurance crisis" several years ago in which insurers claimed that an increase in lawsuits was forcing them out of the commercial liability field.
In the other action, the CFTC accused Craig LaCrosse of non-competitive trading by helping another broker enter a false record of a customer order and by phony sales.

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