Sentence examples for phoney authority from inspiring English sources

The cussing and provocative nature of the music was addictive; I had a healthy distrust of phoney authority.

It deserves better than this Government engaging in phoney excuses to limit its authority.

The future's red Discontented doctors Any flavour but democratic Hosed away Phoney war blues ReprintsVictoria's case was reported to three housing authorities, four social services departments, two police child-protection teams and a family help centre run by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Coll's book ends - a phoney cliffhanger if ever there was one - on September 10 2001, and barely touches on the inability of the federal authorities (despite 40 warnings) to piece together the jigsaw of clues, set out with devastating clarity by the 9/11 commission, about the plans of Mohamed Atta and his fellow hijackers.

Call a phoney a phoney.

A phoney one.

It's so phoney.

This is phoney accountability.

'What a phoney!

This is the phoney crash.

The phoney war is over.