Tartuffe vs phoney

Tartuffe and phoney both are nouns.

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

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

Tartuffe: 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 Tartuffe include dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender.

Tartuffe (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

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