Sentence examples for as phoney from inspiring English sources

And the blanket happy ending is as phoney as hell.

They are not as phoney as the old Soviet Union, with its 99.999% votes for Comrade Stalin.

He has mystifyingly taken the non-singing lead in a musical that is hideously naff, shallow, creepingly misogynist, badly acted and as phoney as a three-lire bill".

But a closer look at the figures reveals that Labour's rhetoric was as phoney as most of the Conservatives' supposed cuts.The Labour government has already set out its spending stall for the next three years.

Amazingly, the Zairean state, as phoney as his furniture, stayed up for several more years before Laurent Kabila's rebels and Rwandan soldiers walked in and, unresisted, took it over.The failed state is a rich breeding ground of peculiar people, places and incidents for which the word "bizarre" falls short.

Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance routine?

Ezra Pound struck her as a phoney, rather than as someone who was struggling to haul literature into the 20th century to sit comfortably beside abstract painting.

This share capital was phoney, as were the rest of the accounting entries relating to this operation.

The New York Times cited a person briefed on the negotiations as saying that Romney, who had derided Trump as a "phoney, a fraud" during the campaign – had not asked to be considered but had been approached by the vice-president-elect, Mike Pence.

Citizens Advice has branded the cuts as a "phoney price war".

While he developed an acquaintanceship with Eliot, he dismissed Pound as a phoney.