Sentence examples for it's a phoney from inspiring English sources

"Yep", he announced, "it's a phoney".

He told Mrs. Courtwright how he could tell it was a phoney.

Now living partly in Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs, Sinatra told the Desert Sun local newspaper it was "a phoney deal".

From Pride and Prejudice, it is a phoney line delivered by Caroline Bingley, a character on the make, rather than a genuine book lover.

The Shard (pictured above as its owners hope it will look), south of the Thames, at 310 metres is expected to be the tallest building in the European Union when it is finished in 2012.But it is a phoney time.

"I remember people over there saying to me, 'Why aren't you writing about the new Ireland and the Celtic Tiger and how fantastic it all is now?' Well, because it was a phoney pile of bullshit".

But it was a "phoney war", according to Matthew Spencer, director of the influential Green Alliance thinktank, as the levies set to be added to future bills to drive the green transformation remain firmly on an upward curve and are expected to more than double to £187 a year by 2020 (though the overall bill may fall if energy efficiency measures bite).

It's a completely phoney, silly film.

If his ordinary-bloke act wears a little thin occasionally, he says it's not because he's a phoney; it's thanks to the distorting effect of constant scrutiny.

"She's a phoney," says Martin Balsam, playing a visiting Hollywood agent who knows Golightly's secret small-town background, "but she's a real phoney".

Perhaps he is sincere and legit and everything people are saying about him being a phoney is wrong.