Sentence examples for are phoney from inspiring English sources

Granted, many African elections are phoney.

This doesn't mean the feelings they record are phoney.

But in both cases, the threats are phoney.

"Oh, these are phoney," Parton says, her voice so soft I can hardly hear it.

Knowing which local organisations are legitimate representatives and which are phoney creations of criminal businessman can be a headache.

Not all those prescriptions are phoney, of course, but presumably America did not become a 48% more painful place during those nine years.

You can say the new "populists" are phoneys and presume their mendacities and contradictions will be exposed once people have experience of how they wield power.

Osborne is angry largely because he is bored and fed up; Amis is amused because he has discovered that some provincial dons are phoneys.

This is phoney accountability.

This row is phoney, obviously.

He said the figures were phoney.