Sentence examples for phoney identity from inspiring English sources

In fact, the nearest thing they have to an inner life is the phoney identity assumed for the undercover adventure, an identity that shows a tendency to subvert what there is of the real thing.

Firth plays Wallace, a talented amateur golfer who is so mortified by his failure to make it as a professional – and by his failures as a husband and father – that he fakes his death and takes off for a new life elsewhere under the phoney identity Arthur Newmann".

But there is plenty of evidence that all sorts of scams flourish on the internet, from identity theft to phoney auctions and bogus requests for data.

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.

This row is phoney, obviously.