phoney BrE informal
phony AmE informal *

Why do you have to be such a phoney with me?

Who got me to sell phoney stock to my friends?

I gave a phoney number and said my name was Claudia.

Main thing is, I think, that there's nothing phoney about him.

"It was a little bit of a phoney world even then," he said during a recent interview.

There is something a little phoney about all the sound and fury.

He had a lot of questions, to which we gave him phoney answers or none.

So perhaps we can be spared this phoney pressure in the future!

I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phoney every minute.

She was quite alive to the possibility of this woman being phoney.

This was during the phoney war, before the fighting on land and air had begun.

But how long is this phoney lack of appetite going to last?

To put it another way: so far, Britain has been fighting a phoney economic war.

The only things phoney are the smiles on the performers.

None of this was standard for a phoney promotion deal.

Phoney oil fire depending on the direction of the wind?

Most often, the phoney social workers had simply asked to examine the children in the home, not to remove them.

If he couldn't leave the building, what was the point of phoney legs?

Good forgeries, very close to the real thing, but phoney.

In other words, they know a phoney when they see one.

And I'd rather have the things I used to see than your phoney talk any day.

He got back to the door, hoping the old phoney downstairs was on the ball.

"These aren't like the phoney ones they sell around here."

"No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits"

I got a feeling there's something phoney about you.

Pay enough for them and no one will ever know they're phony.

His business looks small enough to be a phony one.

Do you really think there's a phony war going on up here?

But did that mean they had to be so phony?

But I've seen enough of the phony stuff to know.

It seems like a phony approach to a real problem.

"I never saw a phony second out of the guy."

"You can almost tell without looking into it that some of them are phony."

"I just wanted you to know that she looks phony to me."

I'll tell them all about my business; they can find out for themselves if it's phony.

The guys looked phony from the time they showed up.

We do not need or want a phony leader, and she is certainly that.

Oh, God, if he was being that phony the kids were done for, too.

If there's anything phony in his story, I'll find it out soon enough.

"Those stories seemed phony a lot of the time, and I'm trying to find a way to make them real," he said.

Your killer might be the only one with a phony name.

I left a phony name and a right telephone number.

Who got me to sell phony stock to my friends?

With other trouble over at the hotel, we knew they were phony.

"After he found out that half his art collection was phony?"

He had her set up accounts for a couple of phony companies.

The funny part was, they probably met each other just once, at some phony party.

If it looks best, we'll give you a chance to send him phony information.

Officials then found a phony passport under the same name.

"They're not going to buy into a phony economic plan."

The 'Phoney War' is over!

As the 'Phoney War' draws to a close, Hornet Squadron begin to see more action.

'Phoney,' said Zack, without conviction.

'Phoney as a fourdollar bill.

Only a 'Phoney War' to show for all my efforts, and to crown the lot, they've made me Camp Entertainment Officer.

'Phoney, probably,' Henry replied.

He was made prime minister on the same day that Germany invaded Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg ending the 'Phoney War'.

In November 1939, during the so-called 'Phoney War', the museum appeared in the opening sequence of the GPO Film Unit production The First Days, in which children are seen playing on some of the museum's German artillery pieces captured during the First World War.

You mean to tell me that they were all phonies?

My mother and the two phonies came running into the room.

He was always talking about the phonies you had to put up with.

So far, it's not too hard to tell the phonies from the real thing.

Take the phony who said "How marvelous to see you!"

The rest, including myself, were phonies who saw an opportunity to serve in the capital city.

How do you keep yourself from coming across like a back-stabbing phony in the office?

"I don't even know if those within the group knew the others were all phonies."

But saying I'm a fake and a phony is another thing."

Its the phonies from Liberty etc who you want to go after.

Sure, some of them turn out to be phonies.

"Even the couple of nice teachers on the faculty, they were phonies, too," I said.

The chief was sure there would be a few phonies in the crowd."

"Tom, do you mean we're going to let those phonies scare us off the moon?"

They have not been laid low by scandal, or exposed as phonies.

"We're the ones that believe in tolerance, not you phonies."

It probably won't occur to him that both of us are phonies.

The cashiers at the stations are looking for these phonies.

See if there's any phonies in the night club.

But over time credible pictures, because they have a true story to tell, can trump the phonies.

Rich liberals who claim they'll help America's less fortunate are phonies.

Maybe they did carry high numbers, but they were phonies.

She could see right through phonies, and didn't suffer fools.

"And let those phonies scare us out of our vacation?

The phony will pick up the bird you want."