Sentence examples for sound phoney from inspiring English sources

David Cameron retains the unfortunate ability to make the solid sound phoney and the substantial lightweight.

They dominate the news agenda for days, while counter-insults by the other candidates sound phoney and only reinforce Trump's image as the more authentic prospect.

To some disinterested listeners, however, this sounded phoney.

Now to hear some home counties girl singing like she comes from the Southside of Chicago sounds phoney and insulting.

Tyson recites Oscar Wilde while looking at a sunset, and it sounds phoney - but talking about his former coach and mentor Cus D'Amato brings him to the brink of authentic tears.

It sounds phoney and sad, as if all she wanted was a marriage and a life from the olden days, and it was more realistic to find it in a terrorist cell than to try to make it happen in Aylesbury.

It sounds so phoney, but without the supportive side of the community that built up around No Man's Sky, it just wouldn't have happened.

Wild Beasts' recent single Wanderlust did contain the line "In your mother tongue what's the verb to suck?" – interpreted as a swipe at UK bands who sing in phoney US accents - but it sounded more like a skirmish on some distant territory than a charging off the barricades.

Some Sicilians argue that his accent is phoney (Zingaretti is from Rome), but it sounds good enough to me, and to my Venetian friend Valentina.

"Loser" by Beck It might not sound much like a sun-scorched singalong – released in March, referencing "butane" and "phoney gas chambers".

Others will struggle: prepare to cringe in 2011 as corporate leaders spout a lot of phoney stuff that used to look bad enough when written down, but will sound even worse spoken.One good consequence of the change, however, will be a greater clarity in the way companies think about their businesses.