phony (n.)
- actor
- agent
- alike
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- ape
- backup
- bastard
- bluff
- bluffer
- brummagem
- canter
- change
- changeling
- charlatan
- cheat
- colored
- comparison
- conformist
- copier
- copy
- copycat
- copyist
- counterfeit
- counterfeiter
- cuckoo
- deceiver
- deputy
- dissembler
- dissimulator
- double
- dummy
- echo
- equal
- equivalent
- ersatz
- exchange
- fake
- faker
- fill-in
- following
- forger
- forgery
- frame-up
- fraud
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- hoax
- hokey
- humbug
- hypocrite
- icon
- illegitimate
- image
- imitation
- imitator
- impersonator
- impostor
- junk
- junky
- like
- likeness
- make-believe
- makeshift
- malingerer
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mime
- mimer
- mimic
- mimicker
- mock
- mocker
- mockingbird
- monkey
- mountebank
- parrot
- paste
- pastiche
- performer
- personnel
- pharisee
- picture
- pinch
- pinchbeck
- plagiarist
- playactor
- portrait
- poser
- poseur
- pretender
- proxy
- pseudo
- put-on
- quack
- queer
- relief
- replacement
- representation
- representative
- resemblance
- reserve
- reserves
- ringer
- rip-off
- secondary
- semblance
- sham
- shammer
- sheep
- shoddy
- sign
- similitude
- simulacrum
- simulator
- snuffler
- spare
- spoof
- stand-in
- stopgap
- sub
- substitute
- substitution
- succedaneum
- supplanter
- surrogate
- swindle
- symbol
- synecdoche
- synthetic
- temporary
- tin
- tinsel
- token
- understudy
- utility
- vicar
- vice-regent
phony (adj.)
- affected
- alike
- alternate
- alternative
- ape
- aped
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bastard
- bluff
- bogus
- brummagem
- change
- clinquant
- colored
- conformist
- counterfeit
- distorted
- double
- dummy
- embellished
- equal
- equivalent
- ersatz
- factitious
- fake
- false
- feigned
- fictitious
- fictive
- following
- forged
- garbled
- hokey
- homogeneous
- hypocritical
- identical
- illegitimate
- imitation
- like
- make-believe
- makeshift
- man-made
- mimic
- mock
- personnel
- perverted
- pinchbeck
- plagiarized
- pretended
- provisional
- pseudo
- quack
- quasi
- queer
- representative
- secondary
- self-styled
- sham
- shoddy
- sign
- similar
- simulated
- snide
- so-called
- soi-disant
- spare
- spurious
- substitute
- supposititious
- surrogate
- synthetic
- temporary
- tentative
- tin
- token
- twisted
- unauthentic
- unnatural
- unreal
- utility
- vicarious
- warped
