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Phony
Phony meaning
Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
Synonyms of Phony
Example sentences (20)
And Simpkins’ holy-bible thumper feels almost as phony, an artificial means to frame Charlie’s homosexuality and leper-like status within a larger philosophical context.
And they will do so often using phony documentation, like their parents, in order to slide through the porous US immigration system.
Bush used a phony National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) engineered by a National Intelligence Officer, Robert Walpole, to provide the intelligence community’s “evidence” of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which, in fact, were non-existent.
DETROIT (AP) — Three people were charged with forgery and other crimes in an investigation of phony petition signatures that spoiled the candidacies of five Republicans who were running for Michigan governor in 2022, prosecutors said Thursday.
From the beginning it's been one witch hunt and phony investigation after another.
How many professional athletes can say the same, and mean it, and not be ridiculed as a fake or a phony?
In 2016, he made his first extraordinary break with Trump, delivering a scathing speech in Utah denouncing Trump, then a presidential candidate, as “a phony, a fraud” and who was unfit to be president.
I think of Joe Biden’s phony military salute and his history of sending men and women into harm’s way.
Jim Cramer Says He's Known Novavax Is 'Worthless' For 'Very Long Time,' Trashes Company For Being Too 'Promotional,'" by Adam Eckert, reports on why "not phony, but worthless" as the company's shares crashed on Wednesday.
Mr. Cohen, who broke with Mr. Trump in 2018 and later testified before Congress as well as the grand jury that indicted Mr. Trump, has said that the former president knew about the phony legal expenses and retainer agreement.
No surprise the Post Gazzzete Blockheads are posting a phony poll showing soon to be X D.A. Zappala gaining on Dugan.
Others in Congress no doubt wonder why can’t Joe “Phony Lunch Pail” Biden do to them what he did to the railroad workers, that is, break their strike.
Roman Reigns’ fake remorse as he appeared to relinquish his status as Tribal Chief and Undisputed WWE Universal championship to Jey Uso was so phony looking that it was a thing of beauty.
Russian collusion, tax returns, and now this phony whistleblower complaint and impeachment saga, the radical left will stop at nothing to try and overturn the Election of 2016.
Some preseason finales have phony storylines.
Stop government mandates and phony environmental rules—that will bring down the cost of housing.
The attack campaign utilised a flaw to inject Linux backdoors into websites to redirect visitors to fake tech support pages, phony lottery winnings, and push notification scams; these were likely part of scams or sold as a service to scammers.
The phony loans were presented with documentation that was supposed to be from the borrowers, showing they they had been secured with collateral.
They don't want to leave like the prisoners forced into indentured servitude on phony charges.
Trump is now arguing in court that the creation of phony personal documents to cover up those payments were official presidential acts, and therefore that the state case against him should be removed to federal court.