Tartufe vs phoney

Tartufe and phoney both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Tartufe	Yes	No	No	No
phoney	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, phoney is a hypernym of Tartufe; that is, phoney is a word with a broader meaning than Tartufe:

Tartufe: a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
phoney: 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

Other hypernyms of Tartufe include dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender.

Tartufe (noun)	phoney (noun)
a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)	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

Tartufe (adjective)	phoney (adjective)
	fraudulent; having a misleading appearance