Summary
phoney {noun}
bluff · bluffmakare
phoney {adjective}
falsk · bluff- · humbug-
English-Swedish translation for "phoney"
"phoney" Swedish translation
phoney {noun}
phoney {noun} [Brit.] (also: phony, humbug, fraud, charlatan)
phoney {adjective}
The speech demonstrated that the political elites ’ claim to be listening to the people of Europe is as phoney as the latest suggestion of...
Synonyms
Synonyms (English) for "phoney":
© Princeton Universitybogus · fake · phony · bastard · hypocrite · dissembler · dissimulator · pretender
Usage examples
Usage examples for "phoney" in Swedish
Books were imported into the Netherlands, but these were actually phoney imports because Dutch publishers came to Belgium to do their printing and distorted the market.
If he cannot make a choice between what is desirable - and I would agree with him about what is desirable - and what is achievable, then we are going to have a phoney debate.
That indicates the need for it to get its act together and fight on the real issues of concern and not on phoney issues such as whether they deserve a subvention to their canteens.
We must avoid taking the same stance on this subject and being more extremist than the US in keeping a check on people in the name of this phoney war on terrorism.
Not only was that commitment not honoured, but subsequent budgets, including the one for 1999, have been adapted to the dictates of a phoney EMU and have bowed to decisions made by bankers.
Can I also say that when Mr Jarzembowski uses the term 'a slightly phoney debate ', I say to him as a politician of mature experience, what does he really expect?
Similar words
philosophic · philosophical · philosophy · phishing · phlebitis · phlegm · phlegmatic · Phoenix · phone · phoneme · phoney · phonograph · phonologic · phonological · phony · phosphate · phosphorescence · phosphorus · photo · photochemical · photocopier
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