Sentence examples for phoney a from inspiring English sources
"If they tell us it's valid, we don't know it's phoney," a spokesman for Massport, the Massachusetts state agency which operates Logan airport, said yesterday.
There's a commercial for a real bar — Chicago's Tonic Room, which is cast as an antidote to online dating sites — and even one for the Phoney ("a silicone-based lifehack / to help you get your life back").
To his detractors, however, Turner is an Eton-educated phoney, a reactionary whose libertarian politics make him less like his idol Joe Strummer than a kind of guitar-slinging equivalent of a Breitbart.com columnist.
All this time, Thuram thought himself serious about something serious, but in confusing the superficial with the substantial, he revealed a phoney, a fraud, a spoofer and a fake; a joke.
The New York Times cited a person briefed on the negotiations as saying that Romney, who had derided Trump as a "phoney, a fraud" during the campaign – had not asked to be considered but had been approached by the vice-president-elect, Mike Pence.
The intelligent adolescents of his stories often struggled to find meaning in a world filled with "phoneys"—a struggle that mirrored his own.
It can be accidental, or innate, but want it too much and you're at risk of being marked out as a phoney, or a narc, or a try-hard.
Mr Hollande himself has accused David Cameron of being "a little phoney" over a claim at a summit that the European Union might be looking to develop its own military drone.
"John can spot a phoney line a mile off," he says.
Described in court as a "phoney and a bully", Morrison has four previous convictions for assault and one for harassment on his ex-girlfriend, aged 23, from Birmingham.
