Sentence examples for of a phony from inspiring English sources

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Whole Foods was, in Pollan's account, kind of a phony.

"I think that's kind of a phony argument, frankly," said McGovern.

These were the tableaus — some spontaneous, some staged, some a bit of both — of a phony victory.

He was the kind of a phony that have to give themselves room when they answer somebody's question.

They should do so, refusing the bait of a phony bipartisanship that would lead to economic failure and political suicide.

It stank of a phony grown-up's unreal gimmicky mind, it was a hype, I hated it!

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Throughout Paterno's 61-year run at Penn State, he was often accused of being a phony of not caring as much as he pretended to about academics, of being smug and sanctimonious and hypocritical.

Each accuses the other of owning a phony set of unregistered bearer shares.

Overall, the academy's populist grasp for a phony sense of restored relevance is, frankly, some MAGA bullshit.

If there is not, The Times is guilty of overplaying a phony story.

In the latest case, in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Mr. Rocancourt is accused of arranging a phony $4.2 million loan for a woman he met in California in November 1998.

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