PHONY

(noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
synonyms : dissembler , dissimulator , hypocrite , phoney , pretender
(adj.) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
synonyms : bastard , bogus , fake , phoney
when they caught up with him, he was running a bastard company that specialised in cheating old women and widows out of their money. -added by diviya_inlas

Mnemonics for phony

(Tag: ) phone+money--think if someone calls u on phone and asks for money..surely is a fraud.
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(Tag: ) Imagine a person is pretending to phone lots of people every time....he is phony because he is showing pretense of being popular.......
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