Sentence examples for a bit phony from inspiring English sources

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"Sometimes when I get too styled up, I feel a bit phony".

"When you feel a bit phony, I don't like that feeling.

Like most Hollywood movies about corporate villainy, "Antitrust," waving the banner of the open-source movement, feels a bit phony.

It's a bit phony, perhaps, but to refuse to embrace the movie's deep hokiness would be to cheat yourself of some of the profound pleasure it offers.

Some of the scenes -- a locker-room dozens session, in which the players achieve solidarity by insulting one another's mothers -- feel a bit phony, but Mr. Yakin uses the physical intensity of the sport as a way of telegraphing the changing emotional texture of the team.

So I have come to suspect that something way more than merit is going on--something about Clinton as a woman--and a certain kind of woman: tough, sometimes arrogant, maybe even a bit phony at times.

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"It just gets a little bit phony when suddenly people are colorblind and positive," Quinn carps.

"I think he would say that was, you know, a little bit too phony".

These were the tableaus — some spontaneous, some staged, some a bit of both — of a phony victory.

A bit.

"A bits a bit.

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