phoney

How To Use phoney In A Sentence

• The sounds of the phoney election war are already dimly audible. Times, Sunday Times
• The idea of making connections to others mainly to advance you career can seem a bit distasteful and phoney. Times, Sunday Times
• Who could have failed to see that there were no manufacturer's name or address or ingredients or shelf-life on the packages of the phoney milk powder?
• Originally, it opened with the three Bone cousins, Fone, Phoney, and Smiley Bone, lost in the desert after being run out of Boneville; the new version begins with a lengthy, dull cutscene in which Thorn gives a narration of Bone's cosmogony from the text of Crown of Horns. Archive 2007-05-01
• Companies arranged for competitors not to bid, or to enter phoney higher bids.
• Perhaps he can find some money to put towards some genuine tax reform by clamping down on these phoney charities.
• Who could have failed to see that there were no manufacturer's name or address or ingredients or shelf-life on the packages of the phoney milk powder?
• The issue has helped them to their best week of the phoney campaign so far. Times, Sunday Times
• It's hard enough for most British bands to capture that roots vibe without sounding phoney or just plain ridiculous, but they pull it off and keep their own unique character too.
• And the pity is that no side will win this phoney war. Times, Sunday Times