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deceiver vs phoney

phoney vs deceiver

deceiver and phoney both are nouns.

deceiver is not an adjective while phoney is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
deceiver Yes No No No
phoney Yes Yes No No
As nouns, phoney is a hyponym of deceiver; that is, phoney is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deceiver:
  • deceiver: 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 deceiver 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.
deceiver (noun) phoney (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true 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
deceiver (adjective) phoney (adjective)
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
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