Sentence examples for very phony from inspiring English sources

That sounds very phony, but to me, that's what the whole thing was always about.

"The mayor plays the racial card when he thinks it is to his advantage and then he condemns other people when he believes they're doing it and that is very phony," Giuliani said afterwards.

*Doesn't have the grades, can't do the work, needs extensive tutoring to have a chance at ANY college, unless Affirmative Action and sealing her transcripts can be arranged (very likely!) Phony Birth Certificate, sealed transcripts from Harvard AND Columbia, 'gap year', see a pattern?" As hard as it is to imagine, some other comments were even worse.

It's all very forced and phony.

Openers MGMT (listen) have a minor blog hit in "Time to Pretend," which manages to be very catchy and phony at the same time.

"I suppose I find it an interesting contrast to stereotyped morality, which is very frequently hypocritical and phony.

He thought of them as kind of phony people, very vain, who just wanted to look their best even when they were supposed to look their worst.

For Buruma, Mishima was a phony, "a very gifted buffoon" who claimed to personify the samurai spirit when he was in fact quite at home with Western culture.

There have been very serious problems with phony pharmaceuticals and less serious ones with make-believe monks, their reverent garb and holy mannerisms a ruse for collecting donations and peddling spiritual trinkets.

And he retells the very naughty story -- phony, supposedly -- that went round at the time about what Mick (excuse me, Sir Mick) and Marianne were up to with a Mars Bar, when they all got busted by the police.

"I'm certainly no different from that". There have now been seven qualifying events, which is still very early in the phony war period.