Sentence examples for phoney as from inspiring English sources

This share capital was phoney, as were the rest of the accounting entries relating to this operation.

And the blanket happy ending is as phoney as hell.

Damien Hirst's paintings are talentless and phoney as hell.

He found literary theory and academic jargon as phoney as politeness.

They are not as phoney as the old Soviet Union, with its 99.999% votes for Comrade Stalin.

The peace will surely prove as phoney as the "war" that preceded it, which featured both Ecuador and Venezuela moving troops to their borders with Colombia.

But the enthusiasm was short-lived and perceived as phoney at the time.

The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phoney and fragile as East Germany did 30 years ago.

We have become suspicious: of their mawkish advertising, of their treatment of farmers, of their desperate bids to package up things that really don't need packaging up at all (I mean this literally and metaphorically, versions of "restaurant-style" dishes being every bit as phoney and wasteful as apples wrapped in too much plastic).

Sir Stelios hasi-Ioaccusedas accuseasyJetJet of crafting bonuses with "phoney calculations", as he warned in an extraordinary tirade that the "gravy train has gone wild" at the airline he founded 17 years ago.

Ezra Pound struck her as a phoney, rather than as someone who was struggling to haul literature into the 20th century to sit comfortably beside abstract painting.