Sentence examples for with a phoney from inspiring English sources

The ship will be owned by a holding company registered in a tax haven with a phoney board.

One day, he hits on the idea of preying on single mums in their support group, pretending to be a single dad with a phoney child-seat in his sports car, ruthlessly exploiting their emotional vulnerability.

That, for many people with secure jobs, proved a phoney recession, reflected in the cult of fake frugality.

When a grinning Trump was photographed last month having dinner with Mitt Romney, who called him a "phoney" during the campaign, social media went wild with witty captions and Photoshopped jokes.

What some have deemed a phoney war with Britain's EU partners, conducted around negotiating tables from Brussels to Berlin, is over.

All this time, Thuram thought himself serious about something serious, but in confusing the superficial with the substantial, he revealed a phoney, a fraud, a spoofer and a fake; a joke.

Spielberg withholds the facts about why Powers failed to commit suicide on capture with a poison-pin in a phoney coin – but instead shows us Abel removing secret information from a phoney coin of his own: somehow a dismal, petty skill.

While he developed an acquaintanceship with Eliot, he dismissed Pound as a phoney.

He also agreed with Carr that the current rules allowed "a phoney war" to take place before a hostile bid was actually tabled.

Now we have a phoney recovery, concocted for electoral gain with the aid of yet another housing bubble.

No one condemned this as fakery, or a phoney attempt to fool the people with hollow display.