Phony

//ˈfoʊni//

"Phony" in a Sentence (16 examples)

I got sucked in on a lot of phony deals.

My mother says that the child's illnesses are phony.

Japan disproved phony accusations of computer chip dumping.

It's phony.

She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.

What a phony!

Tom is a total phony.

Sami created a phony e-mail address.

Authorities are receiving a surge of reports about people trying to cash in on the coronavirus crisis with outrageous prices, phony cures and other scams.

You're afraid everyone will find out you're just a phony.

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A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.

[…] one wonders whether the function of statistical techniques in the social sciences is not primarily to provide a machinery for producing phoney corroborations and thereby a semblance of ‘scientific progress’ where, in fact, there is nothing but an increase in pseudo-intellectual garbage.

He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.

What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.

He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.

One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.

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