Colored and Phony

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Colored adjective - Marked by a variety of usually vivid colors.

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Phony and colored are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Phony" instead an adjective "Colored".

Nearby Words: color, colour, colorful, coloured, coloring

Phony adjective - Being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud.

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Colored and phony are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Colored" instead an adjective "Phony".

Nearby Words: phoney, phone, phoning

My Little Phony: In "Pones", Sweet Bro is playing with a magenta / rainbow colored unicorn.

Source: Webcomic / Paradox Space
Even in The Wizard of Oz it has shades of this—although the people aren't unhappy or corrupt, the Wizard in charge is a phony playing the whole city for fools (and the city isn't even really emerald; the Wizard just makes everyone wear emerald-colored glasses so they think it is).

Source: Soiled City on a Hill

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