Sentence examples for phony with from inspiring English sources

Mitt Romney is a phony with gobs of hair gel.

The World War II memorial seems almost phony, with its artificial allusions to antiquity; the Roosevelt Memorial diminishes that president and even implies that he was a pacifist (featuring his words "I hate war") instead of a wartime leader responsible for building up the "arsenal of democracy".

But Tom warns Ellen that Patty will be much more interested in how she handles herself than in her answers, because "when it comes to reading people, Patty lives and dies by instinct," and, further, "If you're phony with her for one second, she'll skewer you".

But that louche bounder, Leslie White, is such a phony, with his studied airs and transparent line of seduction, that his astounding success with all manner and class of women — Quirke's rebellious daughter, Phoebe, among them — reduces these otherwise interesting characters to idiots.

I don't really put salt and pepper on much of anything, plus I'd feel like a phony with all the sticker-peeling and whatnot.

"We can put to rest the thought the Dr. is phony with suspect connections," al-Jarah wrote in April 2011.

It diverts us with phony adrenaline, teases us with jealousy, hooks us with sex.

Bout traveled to Thailand in March 2008 to finalise the phony deal with the two DEA informants.

Yes, there was a war on, and the historians credit the Ghost Army's phony maneuvers with preventing significant numbers of Allied casualties.

He did it in the mid-2000s, whexecutivesves at General Re, owned by Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, were prosecuted for concocting a phony transaction with A.I.G.

He has thrown himself into his battle against Rodenstock and phony wine with the same headlong enthusiasm that he devoted to collecting wine.