Sentence examples for sound phony from inspiring English sources
("I hate color," Wilder said, adding, "Even words sound phony when the picture is in color").
All people who talk like that sound phony to me because I know that is all it is: just talk".
"People came back from the first school break and said, 'Edith, all my friends say I sound phony and affected,' " Kline recalled.
Because the words are those of adults looking back ("He amused us with his little figures"), they sound phony in squeaky voices, not to mention in accentless English, an unlikely tongue for the children of Mexico City, where Orozco's family moved when he was 5. Orozco wrote a lyrical autobiography, and the documentary hews closely to its version of events.
However, all it will take are a few responses that sound phony or overprepared, and wham!
But in a world where written exchanges are zipped back and forth, does sending "warm regards" on a chain every 25 minutes sound phony?
"This sounds phony, but it was worth the wait," Mr. Spratlan, 69, said.
"It sounds phony, but I'll miss the national anthem," he said.
The Atlantic's James Fallows wrote on Thursday that "points both large and small in the account sounded phony to me".
Even the dialogue in guest appearances by the real-life Whoopi Goldberg and Siegfried and Roy sounds phony.
