Sentence examples for of a phoney from inspiring English sources
The four months since the Brexit vote have been something of a phoney war.
You can thank your lucky stars you weren't victim of a phoney error!
Guerrillas, calling for a boycott of a "phoney" poll, kidnapped 15 mayors and ambushed soldiers watching over the election campaign.
As Richard Nixon remarked in 1971, "Well, he is sort of a phoney, isn't he?"He never quite belongedNixon was too harsh.
But last month the victim's brother came forward with evidence that Mr Oncel was murdered on the orders of a phoney Islamic sheikh.
THE audacious takeover bid for National Westminster Bank by Bank of Scotland, its smaller Scottish rival, has had something of the air of a phoney war.
The subjects were wired up to a phoney piece of equipment and told that it would measure how hard they were trying during the test.
Footage available Four trailers, a teaser and a couple of "character studies"; see disney.co.uk/brave Other agents of hype A phoney advert appeared on iTunes last week, purporting to promote a luxury brand called "Kilt, by Ruff McLauren".
To start, no one has yet thought to accuse Israel of creating a phoney country in finally acquiescing to the creation of a Palestinian state.
Michigan, anyway, is home to Romney: his father was a popular governor there, and the state plays well to his record as a business executive - which will be a relief since he was accused of being a phoney after his recent conversion to the pro-life, anti-gay marriage cause.
The Greens want to make sure that governments can't hide the real state of debt behind a phoney ceiling, which is little more than a political weapon and just a pretence for genuine checks and balances.
