What is "phoney"

Usage examples of "phoney".

Art blurted out his doings, his thoughts, in a completely honest, ingenuous manner that irritated those social groups who prefer conversational sparring and the artfully phoney commercial facades.

One face of the building was already scarred by blaster burns and most of the phoney stone facia was melted.

When they were done, they lay with her hair smothering his face, Smetana still playing, the clock ticking, the phoney fire guttering.

Wherever blacks were offered for public worship, whether in the ring or on the stage, there were certain to be phoneys on hand worshipping.

Organised crime groups such as the Mafia and Murder Incorporated have also been masters of the big fraudwith business conglomerates and banking institutions as their prime targetswhile clever individuals have similarly worked swindles on ordinary men and women, with phoney business schemes, worthless investments and fake insurance policies as the tools of their trade.

You see, it was Alfred Gilbert I met in Westerbys rooms that day-with a scarf wrapped round the bottom half of his face and a phoney tale about an abscessed tooth.

The TV news was all blow-dried hair and moist white teeth - happy talk and phoney ad libs interspersed with hefty servings of murder and mayhem on blue plate special.

Besterton village was a clutter of architectural styles from timber frame with brick nogging to the phoney Georgian of the Pike residence.

Just before the 1940 Democratic convention the Phoney War ended and France fell.

She was no longer an adolescent indulging with her boyfriend in the grope-a-Sutra sexual phoney war known as heavy petting.

The war broke out while all this was in train, and to begin with, in England, this war was a phoney war.

The British people, far from remembering they were God's chivalry began to show such a detachment from what was variously called the Bore or the Phoney War that the government became seriously worried.

The peace of the last two weeks, the simple joy of having Leigh on my side, all of that now seemed to be the unnatural thing, the false thing - as false as the phoney war between Hitier's conquest of Poland and the Wehrmacht's rolling assault on France.

I'm not talking about fakes, phoneys, borderline psychopaths, what they used to wrap up under one handy label like `beat' or `hippie.

The way she is bringing up her daughter alone, the way she works hard at her crappy job, doing things for all the phoneys in Cork Street and Churchill’s that they can’t do themselves, dreaming of going back to college.