Great and Phony

Great

Great adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.

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

Nearby Words: greatly, greatness

Phony

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

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

Nearby Words: phoney, phone, phoning

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / Blackadder Phony Newscast: Vincent Hanna (a BBC election correspondent at the time of filming) appears as "his own great-great-grandfather", reporting on the Dunny-on-the-Wold by-election for The Country Gentleman's Pig Fertilizer Gazette.
  • Film / Repo Man The life of a Repo Man stimulates him a great deal more than the increasingly phony world of LA punks.
  • The Leverage episode "The Future Job" has a Phony Psychic as the villain, and the episode is wholly recommended for the great detail they go into on his methods.
    Source: Phony Psychic
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