beguiler vs phoney

phoney vs beguiler

beguiler and phoney both are nouns.

beguiler is not an adjective while phoney is an adjective.

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

As nouns, phoney is a hyponym of beguiler; that is, phoney is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than beguiler:

beguiler: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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 hyponyms of beguiler include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

beguiler (noun)	phoney (noun)
a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)	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
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

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

Difference between beguiler and phoney

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