Like a $3 bill

Usage examples of phony.

I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting- happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.

There would be no evidence of your wrongdoing, but clear evidence of me sending three million dollars from Doub Steel to myself and covering the transfer by creating phony documentation for the accountants.

I nearly nabbed you once, Mulley, when you were passing phony money for the counterfeiting gang in St.

I never really wanted to be a phony in any case--on the contrary, I always found phoniness abhorrent in others as well as myself, and I took steps to stop being a phony whenever possible.

IT people or accounting people to increase their own salaries, make payments to a phony vendor, remove negative ratings from HR records, and so on.

Washington is the greatest place in the world for fakes of every kind--fake palmists, bum mind readers and phony psychists.

These phony hippies and communists might easily con Patina into having sex with them and then give her syphilis or gonorrhea!

Chit-chat with phonies and floozies about the first Cologne football club, about the speed limit in towns and villages, about the end of the world on the fourth of next month, about poppycock and the negotiations over Berlin.

Brain circuits: prostie Bobby Inge, Kostenza bailed him on a prostie beef, prosties used phony names, prosties posed for stag pix.

It means that the rankest kind of a phony will give you the best end of it once in a while.

You made a few honest trade runs under a new registry before you then reinsured it, and then you sunk it on the summit of the seamount so you could always get at the remains for spare parts needed to make phony modifications on future acquisitions to your ill-gotten fleet God, how all the buccaneers of the Spanish Main would have envied your organization, Delphi.

How Strickling, in the hours before he summoned police, had restaged the scene and caused a phony suicide note to be written.

He himself had fooled enemies during the thronal war with phonied dispatches.

Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom.

Untrained in the art of subtlety, she was all loud lipstick, four-inch white patent heels, and big glittery hoops of phony gold hanging from each juicy earlobe.