Sentence examples for to phony from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.
There are no clear rules for what happens to phony art after it is identified.
Here is Rendezvous's quick guide to phony goods in markets where Mr. Obama is stopping — Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia.
The last thing in the world that any of these people would want is to phony something".
"You really couldn't do much worse in picking a symbol of resistance to phony branding," Walker writes.
He was popular with the cops, because he threw them big dinners, called 'rackets.' He'd bring tour buses in from uptown to phony opium dens".
The original charges against Mr. Koubriti and Mr. Hannan related to phony identification documents, and they have been in custody since their initial detention.
Gone was the requirement to ensure that customers understood these instruments and that the banks document that they would not be used to phony-up a company's books.
The Bush administration allowed states to phony-up statistics on everything from graduation rates to student achievement to teacher training and state education standards.
Yet his silly and sordid public error in tweeting an intimate photograph paid off in the kind of derision we give not just to sinners but to phonies.
She likes her own pleasure, without feeling the need to apologize for it or to tie it to some phony theory of transcendence.
Goldenvoice has responded by using its website to advise fans on how to spot phony tickets and by hiring outside private investigators to track down counterfeiters.
