Sentence examples for largely phony from inspiring English sources

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But to the Democrats leading the opposition in the Senate, the deadlines — and the premise for the governor's bill — are largely phony.

(For why that revenue was largely phony, see "Enron The Incredible").

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Tillerson and Obama appear to share at least one understanding about energy policy and the 2012 campaign: they are both aware that the partisan and media-amplified war over where to place the blame for rising gasoline prices is largely a phony one.

"Sunstein left behind a muddled regulatory approach that appeared to buy into a phony, largely Republican agenda that regulations were job killers but not life savers," said Jeffrey Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a whistleblower group.

But what if the oil surge is phony and largely due to inflation?

Other file-sharing services, like Kazaa, which come with pesky built-in pop-up advertising programs, have become unreliable and full of phony files, thanks largely to slyly intrusive actions by agents for the musicians or record labels.

The current system of stability, with its elimination of authentic politics — its cultivation of phony elections and a judicial system that largely takes its orders from the executive — –is an elaborately flexible, supremely cynical system of vertical power.

Before Trump was in the White House, this sort of hyperbole was largely regarded as an amusing component of his celebrity who cared if this reality TV show huckster was a phony under an unrealistic pile of hair?

What a phony.

Phony people are bad.

She's phony.

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