Sentence examples for phoney bill from inspiring English sources

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The feminine mystique, she said, was 'a phoney bill of goods society sold to women that left them unfulfilled, suffering from "the problem that has no name" and seeking a solution in tranquilisers and psychoanalysis'.

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The FBI recently launched a campaign against medical companies that send phoney bills or provide excessive and unnecessary treatment.

But further bills loom.AS PHONEY wars often do, the four-month stand-off between Greece and its creditors may come to a sudden and dramatic end.

He has mystifyingly taken the non-singing lead in a musical that is hideously naff, shallow, creepingly misogynist, badly acted and as phoney as a three-lire bill".

Returning to civilian life Joseph has supported himself by robbing sleeping drunks in subway stations, rifling lockers, borrowing money on phoney diamond rings, passing counterfeit bills.

"We are looking into taking action to have the Twitter site removed". For good measure, the phoney Twitter site offers a link to a phoney MySpace profile.

The McCain-Feingold bill would ban so-called "phoney issue ads" (thinly-veiled campaign advertisements financed by outside groups) within 60 days of a general election.

They are traders trading in foreign exchange, in government treasury bills, and sometimes in direct importation of goods through phoney companies.

Joy! Or – to put that more soberly, after the phoney war ushered in by those Mission Fabulous trailers – the first episode of this weekend's double bill will have six couples doing competitive hoofing out on the floor for the first time under the critical gazes of Len Goodman and friends.

Call a phoney a phoney.

He is not phoney.

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