Sentence examples for phoney one from inspiring English sources

If Cameron wants to be a real progressive, instead of a phoney one in Blair's mould, he should start by reading Burke and Paine on the struggle between the American colonists and the British crown.

The war between peer review and metrics is a phoney one.

She thumbs the ring, the "phoney" one set with a fake emerald.

In Deutschland 83 (Channel 4), Europe is preparing for another war: albeit, as it turns out, a phoney one.

The whole debt ceiling debate is a phoney one imported from America by someone in Canberra who watched too much of The West Wing.

Len McCluskey, general secretary, said: "We have long-argued for an immediate uplift in the minimum wage of £1.50 to get people out of poverty and get some real growth into our economy, not this phoney one fuelled by a housing bubble.

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.

Paul Krugman, an economist at Princeton, calculates that the "blue" states (ie, the phoney coastal ones that Democrats win) subsidise the red Republican states to the tune of $90 billion a year and that was before the recent farm bill.The secret of the heartland's success in securing such largesse is simple: political clout.

"The original premise was around all these dating apps and Tinder and bad dates that everyone has gone on," Nelson Chen, one of Phoney.club's creators, told me.

"It had become inevitable," he conceded, without needing to mention Alastair Campbell's famous rule that no ministerial scandal – real or phoney – could stay on page one for more than 10 days without a resignation.

Then there is the phoney complaint that no one is allowed to debate immigration.