Almost, with a slight difference: phony means fake, hypocrite means deceitful.
Charlatan, psuedo, and fraud.
Some synonyms for the word "counterfeit" include the words imitation, fake, forged, phony, bogus, sham, etc.
artificial, bogus, copied, counterfeit, fake, false, imitation, manufactured, phony, pretended, sham, simulated, spurious, substitute, synthetic.
the winning leader of the English civilwar
Phony can be used as an adjective or noun.Adjective--a phony personNoun--a bunch of phonies.
The guy pretending to play the piano was a phony. (noun) The counterfeiter was arrested for printing phony money. (adjective)
She gave a phony excuse for being late to the meeting.
Phony can be used as an adjective or noun.Adjective--a phony personNoun--a bunch of phonies.
Synonyms: illusory, misleading, deceiving, dishonest, false, unreliable, illusive, pretended, disingenuous, devious, deceitful, fraudulent, phony, spurious, specious
Phony Express was created in 1943.
Matri-Phony was created in 1942.
The spygate, he cheated. That makes him a phony.