slicker vs phony

phony vs slicker

slicker and phony both are nouns.

slicker is not an adjective while phony is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slicker	Yes	No	No	No
phony	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

slicker: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
phony: 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 slicker 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, phoney, 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.

slicker (noun)	phony (noun)
a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof	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
a person with good manners and stylish clothing

slicker (adjective)	phony (adjective)
	fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Difference between slicker and phony

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