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phony
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My goal wasn’t to try to make phony, gourmet Hot Pockets—people have done that before and that didn’t interest me.
Perry, the former governor, who met Ellzey years earlier when he was a pilot with no political connections, relentlessly campaigned for the candidate and got earned media attacking the ads as phony.
Pennsylvania’s agency estimated that nearly 84% of its PUA claims were phony.
Then, using his phony passport, Fred had flown up to Vancouver, leaving James behind with no good options.
As Amy strikes up an increasingly close relationship with Bilel, Profile becomes a portrait of the internet as a vehicle for forming both authentic and phony identities.
It just gets a bit phony whenever she wavers and pretends otherwise.
He was arrested trying to flee to Jordan using phony identification.
Surely they believe as well that the very concept of an ethnic nation “chosen” by God is phony and unjust.
This single program alone has generated tens of thousands of phony Twitterers.
In 2012, Facebook announced that 83 million profiles—pushing 10 percent of the total number on the site—were phony.
I would even, I decided, stoop to having him thrown in jail on a phony charge, if that should be necessary.
And you knew, right away, that Swami was a phony from Flatbush.
The Swami was an obvious phony of the baldest fakery, yet he had something.
He had less than a hundred credits, a knife, a deck of phony cards, and a yellow ticket.
Unless the money is phony, or the pass is phony in which case the turnstile locks and all hell breaks loose.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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