It seemed phony," said Ms. Egan.
Some Democrats call Mr. Ryan a fiscal phony, saying that by cutting taxes for corporations and the rich, he would perpetuate the deficit.
"It's not phony," said Mark Messier, Graves's teammate for nine seasons in Edmonton and in New York.
"It's like fake; it's phony," said Heffelfinger, 43, who later bought a $30 T-shirt from the Ismails.
"If I own a lot of stocks, now I have to wonder about whether much of the data on which I have based my judgments is accurate or phony," said Stan Jonas, managing director at Fimat USA, a broker-dealer in New York.
Gothamist, the popular New York-centric blog, claims that @banksyny on Twitter is phony, saying that the artist is providing updates on his website and Instagram, but not through that Twitter account.
"The more transparency we have, the harder it is to funnel money to terrorist groups and phony charities," says Stuart Eizenstat, a Washington, D.C. lawyer who helped write the 1977 law as a Carter Administration official and now serves on a committee that oversees sales generated by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea.
It feels really phony," Eslami says.
"He's a f***king phony asshole," says McCain just as Romney walks in.
"It sounds like your friend was a phony, Walt," says the writer's mother, who seems to have known all along.
"Kids are the best at telling who's a liar, who's phony," Mr. Nance said.
