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Phony meaning

Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.

Using Phony

  • The main meaning on this page is: Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
  • Useful related words include: phoney, trickster, cheater, cheat.
  • In the example corpus, phony often appears in combinations such as: the phony, of phony, and phony.

Context around Phony

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Phony

  • In this selection, "phony" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, using, joe, pages, documentation, national and investigation stand out and add context to how "phony" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include about the phony legal expenses and almost as phony an artificial. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "phony" sits close to words such as academies, ambushed and appease, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with phony

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Some preseason finales have phony storylines. (6 words)

From the beginning it's been one witch hunt and phony investigation after another. (14 words)

Stop government mandates and phony environmental rules—that will bring down the cost of housing. (15 words)

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. (40 words)

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. (39 words)

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. (37 words)

How many professional athletes can say the same, and mean it, and not be ridiculed as a fake or a phony? (21 words)

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.

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.

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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.

Viral internet star Lil Tay is not dead, but rather the victim of hackers who posted a phony announcement on her social media pages, according to a new report.

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Common combinations with phony

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "phony" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "phony" from authentic English texts.
What does "phony" mean?
Phony means: Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
What are synonyms of "phony"?
Common synonyms of "phony" include: phoney, trickster, cheater, cheat, deceiver, pretender, dissimulator, dissembler. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "phony" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "phony", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.