phony

falso, fingido

Que parece real o sincero, pero en realidad es falso.

En inglés sencillo: Made to seem real or honest, although it is false.

• That diamond is phony.
• He gave us a phony name.
• She saw through his phony concern.

Sinónimos: fake, false, bogus

Antónimos: real, genuine

Expresiones frecuentes: phony excuse, phony smile, phony documents

impostor, farsante

Persona que finge ser otra o tener cualidades o habilidades que no posee.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who pretends to be a different person or to have qualities or skills they do not have.

• He's a phony, not a doctor.
• She exposed the expert as a phony.
• Those phonies pretended to care about our problems.

Sinónimos: fraud, fake, impostor

Expresiones frecuentes: a complete phony, expose a phony, such a phony

hipócrita, farsante

Persona que finge creer en cosas en las que realmente no cree.

En inglés sencillo: Someone who pretends to believe things they do not really believe.

• He is a phony.
• She called him a phony for praising ideas he secretly hated.
• Those phonies only pretend to care about the poor.

Sinónimos: hypocrite, faker

Expresiones frecuentes: a complete phony, such a phony, expose a phony