All phoniness synonyms

noun phoniness

• hypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
• bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
• evasive — Tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation, esp. by responding only indirectly.
• dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
• deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
• ambidextrous — Someone who is ambidextrous can use both their right hand and their left hand equally skilfully.
• hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
• disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
• faithless — not adhering to allegiance, promises, vows, or duty: the faithless behavior of Benedict Arnold.
• disingenuousness — The state or quality of being disingenuous.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• backhanded — A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
• false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
• artificiality — artificial quality.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• ambidexterity — ambidextrous ease, skill, or facility.
• glibness — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
• mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.