phony

Major job-search platforms say they are focused on what’s phony and sowing mistrust.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

While Heller was built on phony history, it reflected a genuine, hard-fought shift in public understanding.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Instead, Coffin sketches his idea of a Hollywood creep, the phony let’s-do-lunch schmoozer, with Jeff Bridges voicing a set of twin studio moguls who play bad boss/backhanded boss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

He sat for a telephone interview with USA Today last week that was clearly meant to read as “heartfelt,” but only makes him sound like a phony.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

The sewer tank wasn’t just empty, it was wrecked and useless—a phony prop in Dusty Muleman’s scam.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

It was always baloney, and Meta has just exposed all the people who made that argument as phonies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Soft know-it-alls from the city and phonies of any stripe receive rough treatment in his shows, such as the llama farmer from California who gets thrown under a Montana cattle guard in “Yellowstone.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

It’s a satire on the book world and Hollywood adaptations as well as wry drama about a Black college professor and author fuming about phonies and the commodification of Black narratives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

Mr. Musk trashed Mr. Zuckerberg’s Instagram as a dwelling for fakers and phonies in a Wednesday evening post to Twitter.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

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

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Angelenos can spot a phony from far away — and Spencer, you’re turning out to be phonier than the fake drama on any of the television shows you ever appeared in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Arthur Julian, a writer on “F Troop,” noted that “real audiences sound phonier than the laugh track. Sometimes they freeze up and act unnatural.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

But the screenplay, by David Benioff, Billy Ray, and Darren Lemke, can’t stand that level of scrutiny, and the closer we get to the actors mouthing their clunky, mock-allegorical dialogue, the phonier they seem.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2019

Corny Collins, the dance-show host, should be good-looking in a phonier, slicker way than Steven Beckingham is here, for instance.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2010

The phonier it got, the more she cried.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Baseball strikes, lockouts, labor actions — whatever you want to call them — are the phoniest things in sports next to soccer injuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

When it came to decorating his own new home, he threw out all the rules of good taste and embraced the phoniest of fakes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2014

What would be the phoniest thing of all would be for me to all of the sudden not be his friend.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2011

NEWPORT, Wales -- So it was, inevitably and predictably, the phoniest of conflicts.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 30, 2010

It was the phoniest conversation you ever heard in your life.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

She was indicted for inducing her client, convicted Kidnaper John William Irwin, to testify falsely in an effort to prove that Sinatra phonied up the kidnaping as a publicity stunt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every time I go anywhere now it's all phonied up.

From Time Magazine Archive