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I’d encourage any Republicans who share this goal to leave off with the phony messaging and join us in getting this done.
REPUBLICANS UNITE AROUND A MESSAGE — SCHOOLS SHOULD REOPEN, AND DEMOCRATS ARE TO BLAMEDAVID WEIGELFEBRUARY 18, 2021WASHINGTON POST
I would even, I decided, stoop to having him thrown in jail on a phony charge, if that should be necessary.
NINE MEN IN TIMENOEL MILLER LOOMIS
And you knew, right away, that Swami was a phony from Flatbush.
SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDEMARK IRVIN CLIFTON
The Swami was an obvious phony of the baldest fakery, yet he had something.
SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDEMARK IRVIN CLIFTON
He had less than a hundred credits, a knife, a deck of phony cards, and a yellow ticket.
POLICE YOUR PLANETLESTER DEL REY
Unless the money is phony, or the pass is phony in which case the turnstile locks and all hell breaks loose.
THE SYNDICC.M. KORNBLUTH
"My people were certainly handed a phony deal here," he remarked shortly, as he buttoned the coat collar about his throat.
THE IRON FURROWGEORGE C. SHEDD
And when he got through, the "phony" ankle was so protected that it was practically impossible for it to turn under its owner.
BERT WILSON ON THE GRIDIRONJ. W. DUFFIELD
"Those phony ankles again, eh," he remarked, as he noticed a slight wobbling on the part of Anderson.
BERT WILSON ON THE GRIDIRONJ. W. DUFFIELD
The camel let out a louder groan, one filled with such phony pain and despair that the boys burst out laughing.
THE EGYPTIAN CAT MYSTERYHAROLD LELAND GOODWIN
WORDS RELATED TO PHONY
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- deceptive
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
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