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| Pronunciation:  |   | fownee
 
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- [n]  a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold  
 
- [adj]  fraudulent; having a misleading appearance  
 
 
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|   | Synonyms: |   | bastard, bogus, counterfeit, dissembler, fake, hypocrite, imitative, phony, phony, pretender |  
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|   | See Also: |   | beguiler, charmer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, Tartufe, Tartuffe, trickster, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre |       |  
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|   | Related Terms: |   | artificial, bogus, charlatan, counterfeit, counterfeiter, deceitful, deceiver, dishonest, double-dealer, ersatz, factitious, fake, faker, false, forgery, fraud, fraudulent, hoax, humbug, hypocritical, imitation, impostor, insincere, mock, mountebank, paste, phony, pretended, pretender, quack, sham, spurious, synthetic, trickster, unreal |  
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