Sentence examples for a phoney one from inspiring English sources
If Cameron wants to be a real progressive, instead of a phoney one in Blair's mould, he should start by reading Burke and Paine on the struggle between the American colonists and the British crown.
The war between peer review and metrics is a phoney one.
In Deutschland 83 (Channel 4), Europe is preparing for another war: albeit, as it turns out, a phoney one.
The whole debt ceiling debate is a phoney one imported from America by someone in Canberra who watched too much of The West Wing.
She thumbs the ring, the "phoney" one set with a fake emerald.
Len McCluskey, general secretary, said: "We have long-argued for an immediate uplift in the minimum wage of £1.50 to get people out of poverty and get some real growth into our economy, not this phoney one fuelled by a housing bubble.
Juries are hard put to it to distinguish genuine experts from phoney ones: in one case in Philadelphia, "experts" persuaded a jury to award a psychic $1m in damages because her predictive powers had been destroyed by a CAT brain scan.
A coup last year has imposed a phoney calm on Thai politics.
Coll's book ends - a phoney cliffhanger if ever there was one - on September 10 2001, and barely touches on the inability of the federal authorities (despite 40 warnings) to piece together the jigsaw of clues, set out with devastating clarity by the 9/11 commission, about the plans of Mohamed Atta and his fellow hijackers.
No one condemned this as fakery, or a phoney attempt to fool the people with hollow display.
