Sentence examples for phoney in from inspiring English sources

And so much is phoney in the public debate over "permanent" American bases in the country.

Two decades after his one Southampton appearance, Ali Dia is the most famous phoney in the history of British football.

One, Dan Meridor, told the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth: "Bibi is the biggest phoney in the world.

Here is Michael Wood: "Unspeakably phoney in everything except his writing, snobbish, evasive, preachy and calculating as only the unworldly are".

Here is the story of the most famous phoney in the history of British football, told by those who were there to witness his very brief time at the top.

It doesn't feel contrived or phoney in the way that Ye Olde Shoppes tend to and yet it wouldn't strike you as odd if Grampa Walton emerged with a sack of buckwheat on his shoulder.

"If I wore a... .. he pauses to think of an outlandish item, "If I wore a denim jacket, people would just think I was this huge phoney!" Born in 1988 in Brampton, a nearly-city just outside of Toronto, Cera started on the acting road at the age of four after watching Bill Murray in Ghostbusters ("I just wanted to be like him. He was the coolest guy in the world!").

Juries are hard put to it to distinguish genuine experts from phoney ones: in one case in Philadelphia, "experts" persuaded a jury to award a psychic $1m in damages because her predictive powers had been destroyed by a CAT brain scan.

It's getting a little hotter, but we're in something of a phoney war in Brexit Britain right now.

At the end of the phoney war, in May 1940, Wodehouse, then living in Le Touquet, was interned by the Nazis after the fall of France.

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.