Sentence examples for in a phony from inspiring English sources

André has raised Mounir since childhood and is in a phony arranged marriage with his sister.

(Ms. Israel's book title comes from an invented line in a phony letter attributed to Parker).

"Phil is that good — he's committed to art and not in a phony, grandstanding way.

Asked for his name, he gave a false identity in a phony female voice, then eventually gave his name.

He also brought charges against Marc S. Dreier, the fomer lawyer who pleaded guilty to defrauding hedge funds in a phony investment scheme.

At once suave and stuffy, he speaks in a phony, pseudo-academic voice that's slightly prissy and determinedly above it all.

At the moment, Pack was analyzing a hard drive seized by the police in a phony-check-writing operation that had victimized Target stores.

Corny Collins, the dance-show host, should be good-looking in a phonier, slicker way than Steven Beckingham is here, for instance.

Phishing, the spammer tactic of duping e-mail recipients into logging in to a phony site and then nabbing their personal info, has everyone confused.

There is talk in Albany of a phony compromise that tinkers with these terrible maps and promises to do better in 2022.

In response to a phony crisis over "religious liberty" engendered by the right, President Obama seems to have stood his ground on an essential principle — free access to birth control for any woman.