How To Use Phoney In A Sentence
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The sounds of the phoney election war are already dimly audible.
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The idea of making connections to others mainly to advance you career can seem a bit distasteful and phoney.
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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?
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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.
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Companies arranged for competitors not to bid, or to enter phoney higher bids.
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Perhaps he can find some money to put towards some genuine tax reform by clamping down on these phoney charities.
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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?
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The issue has helped them to their best week of the phoney campaign so far.
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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.
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And the pity is that no side will win this phoney war.
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Perhaps he can find some money to put towards some genuine tax reform by clamping down on these phoney charities.
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Daily Mail says the cut and thrust that used to characterise elections has all but disappeared in what it calls a phoney, heavily stage-managed contest.
British Blogs
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My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence.
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It was this renaissance that gave the death-blow to the squireen type of phoney Irish writing which created that charmingly-inane myth wearing a "caubeen", smoking a "dudheen", long upper-lipped, with shamrocks growing from his ears-the stage Irishman.
The Irish Mind
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The report was triggered in part by a $146-million fraud uncovered last year in which the department paid phoney invoices during a 10-year period.
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But he is bogged down by a terrible script - crammed with all that is clunky, cutesy and phoney - and surrounded by actors giving turns of pure ordure.
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Not a Grand National bet, but the number of phoney/ fake/ reproduction bureaux to the genuine.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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From the photograph down, everything was a fraud and a phoney.
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If I had seen the phoney letters, with their Italian stamps and postmarks, I would have concluded that Donald was in Italy.
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Without meaning to - and without trying - she made most other contemporary female singers seem pointless and phoney.
The Sun
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It's not phoney or fake.
The Sun
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I'm not a big fan of abstract art myself - it's generally paint splodges on canvas masquerading as masterpieces - I find it phoney and lazy.
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Access to the properties is gained by putting a phoney offer down.
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Once there was this smug and rather phoney colour supplement lifestyle food culture.
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It adopts no postures of phoney charms to placate its visitors.
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What a miserable bunch of phoneys they are, both the traitors and their spin doctors.
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They arrogated this power to themselves under the phoney mandate of ‘global economic integration’.
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What this means is that we need to expose what I call the phoney anti-capitalism of environmentalists and anti-globalisationists.
Undefined
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Sadly, phoney clinics offer spurious tests which will diagnose allergies in virtually anybody.
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In Tehelka's suburban office in Delhi, they devised a false logo for West End and printed off phoney business cards.
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But a week is a long time in a phoney election campaign.
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On Tuesday, the phoney war ends.
The Sun
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The idea of making connections to others mainly to advance you career can seem a bit distasteful and phoney.
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These offer a phoney impression of simplicity, reducing complex manifesto policies to a few slogans.
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He carries only phoney credit cards, but he was trying to help me by deferring the cost of his stay.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Labour has cooked up this phoney row just to manufacture cheap headlines on the eve of a general election.
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Yet it was also the phoniest of phoney wars.
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This diamond is a phoney.
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He'll continue to have a hard time convincing voters he isn't a dangerous and phoney pretender with no business shooting higher than, say, the Sports Ministry.
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Once there was this smug and rather phoney colour supplement lifestyle food culture.
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In that sense there is something deeply phoney about his machismo.
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He's false, a phoney," Harry muttered.
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This is comforting somehow; the phoney war is pretty much over and now the real fight begins.
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The Transbad Saints, on the other hand, are a slick crowd of phoneys led by the posturing, epicene Helmet Al Weaver, who steal a No 1 hit from Keva and head for the States.
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She spoke with a phoney Russian accent.
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Their love affair with this hypocritical phoney is sickening.
Palin defends Obama birth certificate inquiries
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All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile.
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This was a phoney budget and the rhetorical battle between the parties is a phoney war.
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The phoney e-card is the latest scam in the eternal battle for online traffic, playing cynically on people's goodwill to bombard them with adverts or promote dubious websites.
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Let Michael relay Sutton and tell you people here who have the phoney habit (it was remarketable) in his clairaudience, as this is, as only our own Michael can, when reicherout at superstation, to bring ruptures to our roars how I am amp amp amplify.
Finnegans Wake
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This was always a bit of a phoney war.
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Pip found the phoney war unbearable.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Bronchophoney, aegophony and whispering pectoriloquy may be present
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From the photograph down, everything was a fraud and a phoney.
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For a boy who has appeared fatigued and cynical in the last few months it was an incredible performance - funny, charismatic and sung in a voice that is rare in these days of phoney plastic bands.
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I'm weary of this phoney controversy and tired of defending the jug-eared nincompoop.
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There's something very phoney about him.
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It's based on authenticity when there is something phoney about the Mayor.
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But he is bogged down by a terrible script - crammed with all that is clunky, cutesy and phoney - and surrounded by actors giving turns of pure ordure.
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The phoney row about patient data should not obscure some important measures that were proposed yesterday for the biotech industry.
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And there was nothing remotely phoney about this manifestation of law and order.
LAST SHOT
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What a miserable bunch of phoneys they are, both the traitors and their spin doctors.
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Stray too far into condemning what he called 'phoney human rights concerns' and Cameron will damage his claim to be a different kind of Tory.
The Guardian World News
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If it seemed inspiring once, too much of it seems phoney now.
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He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
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Here are two parties play-acting a phoney war - and wondering why voters yawn.
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If you would all form yourselves into a circle and affect an expression of phoney empathetic concern, I have a confession.
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Access to the properties is gained by putting a phoney offer down.
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The kids all put on a phoney American accent.
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The indoor season is often something of a phoney war, but not this time.
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He decries the process and rails against the phoney cat'n'mouse game that interviews have become.
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Sadly, phoney clinics offer spurious tests which will diagnose allergies in virtually anybody.
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He may have been wrong in some of his literary judgments and ignorant in some areas of literature but he was good at getting rid of what was superfluous or phoney in a piece of writing.
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The appearance of oil painting on velvet created a gleaming effect, there was an incredibly phoney real feeling to it.
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They have been impressive in the phoney war of pre-season.
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All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile.
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The report was triggered in part by a $146-million fraud uncovered last year in which the department paid phoney invoices during a 10-year period.
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The Movement, as well as being anti-phoney, is anti-wet; sceptical, robust, ironic, prepared to be as comfortable as possible.
The Man of Feeling
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Like me he understood that the people around him were fakes and phoneys and pretty soon I realised he hated school as much as I did.
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But any moment the spell might fail, their eyes would be opened and they would realise I was a fraud, a phoney.
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The botched raids came after a suspect gave police a phoney address.
The Sun
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The kids all put on a phoney American accent.
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Here are two parties play-acting a phoney war - and wondering why voters yawn.
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But any moment the spell might fail, their eyes would be opened and they would realise I was a fraud, a phoney.
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Once there was this smug and rather phoney colour supplement lifestyle food culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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She spoke with a phoney Russian accent.
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Once there was this smug and rather phoney colour supplement lifestyle food culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labour has cooked up this phoney row just to manufacture cheap headlines on the eve of a general election.
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He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
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The build-up has the atmosphere of a phoney war as the rivals perfect the various practical jokes and wind-ups that will help unsettle their enemy's preparations.
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Once there was this smug and rather phoney colour supplement lifestyle food culture.
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So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists?
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It was a launch as phoney as the campaign has been so far.
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He'll continue to have a hard time convincing voters he isn't a dangerous and phoney pretender with no business shooting higher than, say, the Sports Ministry.
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So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists?
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He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
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The lesson she took away – that you can be a massive phoney as long as you gurn and squeal while you're doing it – is the guiding force for her debut single.
This week's new singles
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Like me he understood that the people around him were fakes and phoneys and pretty soon I realised he hated school as much as I did.
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Without trying, she makes most other contemporary female singers seem pointless and phoney.
The Sun
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Bang! Bang! " the small boy brandished a phoney pistol and shouted.
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In a period of political phoney war, he is ahead in the polls.
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If new management can bring innovation and PO workers can get a good deal Mandelson's plan could help get people thinking more about added value, fairness, and building a better tomorrow than nitpicking over short-term trivialities like phoney elections, recessions, and scapegoating the poor.
British Blogs
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The phoney war over the number of potential job losses needs to stop.
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These offer a phoney impression of simplicity, reducing complex manifesto policies to a few slogans.
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The kulfi in The Wee Curry Shop looks and tastes like bad industrial ice cream with phoney laboratory flavours.
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PS To my good buddy sro, before you try and correct someone on their spelling you might want to actually make sure you are putting that big ol foot of yours in your mouth, phoney is a perfectly acceptable spelling of the word so please put your 'advice' where the sun don't shine, but please have a pleasant day.
Sound Politics: "Cantwell Doesn't Care"
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A phoney secret agent and his wife are in custody awaiting sentence for their campaign of terror against a family.
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I would not participate in a phoney election and accepted the alternative - being blacklisted and placed under surveillance.
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The phoney war is almost over.
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He looks totally phoney to me.
