Sentence examples for phoney by from inspiring English sources

But there's a hint of that in Trading Places, when Billy Ray pretends to be an African exchange student on the train and, earlier, pretends to be a blind and parapalegic war veteran ("I was with the Green Berets, I was special Agent Orange"), only then to be exposed as a phoney by the police who pick him up off the ground: "I can see!

Trump's response: "Mr Trump strongly denies this phoney allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity," said spokeswoman Hope Hicks in a statement.

But much more important than either was the phoney outrage by David Cameron and George Osborne over the House of Lords' threat (duly carried out) to block the more egregious callousness of child tax-credit cuts.

It suddenly snapped shut last year after accusations that it had been selling phoney works by the highest-priced American painters – Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning among others.

With little land action in the west, the initial months of the war were dubbed the "Bore War", later renamed the "Phoney War" by journalists.

The Transbad Saints, on the other hand, are a slick crowd of phoneys led by the posturing, epicene Helmet (Al Weaver), who steal a No 1 hit from Keva and head for the States.

'I used to try to counter being small by phoney dignity.

"There has been a phoney debate created by Aznar, who has used it to create a climate of anti-Basque aggression," he says.

From Pride and Prejudice, it is a phoney line delivered by Caroline Bingley, a character on the make, rather than a genuine book lover.

These cases are quite different from the phoney stories planted by studio flacks from time immemorial, dependent on co-operative artists and a complaisant press.

The phoney war conducted by their denizens has come to consist in the last two decades of a dismissive statement of superiority, with the support of hard fact, notwithstanding the two narrow defeats in England in 2005 and 2009.