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Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
phoney, you — ‘You dirty phoney’ is equated with ‘you hypocrite’ in Saul Bellow’s The Victim. ‘Phoney’, sometimes ‘phony’, is wellused in modern times, and certainly refers to fake rather than real qualities. An ingenious explanation of the word, quoted at… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address