Contoh phoney

• The war of words between the 'old enemies', played out on the wartime and immediate postwar political and media stages, was essentially a phoney war.

• When will the moment come when we feel like sticking plasters of protest onto all those phoney phrases?

• She is currently in the shell shocked but still "phoney war" stage.

• Women were responsible both for producing phoney accounts of the war and for popularizing them ; the inauthentic war-text derives from the sentimental female literary tradition so popular before the war.

• When the phoney contextualism of the colonial style came along the spell was broken and the diner manufacturers woke up to the real nature of their product.

• A far better target for a critique of phoney 'authenticity', for at least the mainstream of popular music, is that an artist has to be troubled.

• We all know this is a phoney parliament, but this demonstrates just how pointless it is.

• In reality, a conditional censure is a phoney censure.

• I am referring first of all to the phoney debate on gelatine.

• I am quite deliberately saying product counterfeiter, rather than refer to a peddler of phoney products, which sounds very harsh.

• Is it not very clear that if they do not agree to verification of the kind that is simple and right then they are phoneys—that's all, just phoneys?

• I hate these double negatives: they sound "phoney" to me, and in this particular case they always have done.

• I am told by some of the providers that there has been no phoney business and no bunching up of contracts.

• I referred to these "phoney" cars built in backyards, not to the general run of cars.

• With all respect to the motor industry, not all "phoney" cars are built in backyards.