Sentence examples for phony as from inspiring English sources

It seems that Göring, while awaiting trial in Nuremberg, may not have learned that his cherished Vermeer was a phony, as nice as it is to think that he did.

And such "debate" really is phony (as has been brilliantly explained by Linda Hirshman) if it is conducted on the "common ground" that abortion is evil, and that women who seek them are either perpetrators or victims of a tragedy if not a crime.

But rage gets old, and even as McMahon and Hogan cash in tonight, they run the risk of looking -- even to connoisseurs of phoniness -- as phony as the violence they're hawking.

Well, the colors are as phony as the sound.

I think it's phony as a $3 bill.

In other words, it's as phony as Botox.

Three is as phony as a three-dollar bill.

The endlessly yakking Edwards — phony as his hairpiece — does all the talking.

The 1910 scenes look and feel as phony as a four-dollar bill.

Except we probably won't, because nothing sounds as phony as paid-for enthusiasm.

The ESPN analyst Merrill Hoge called Tebow "as phony as a three-dollar bill".