All salespeople seem to have the same phony smile.
1 represented as real but actually false; intended to deceive:
2 a person who falsely pretends to be something:
I think he’s a phony.
When someone responded by playing a 'phony role' (one of his favourite pejorative terms), he acted bored or irritated, rolling his eyes in mock frustration or disbelief.
After this, we should stop the phony peace and face the unpleasant realities of our economic situation.
I do not believe that people regard the quota as being in any way "phony".
But what world does it so present, the real one or a phony one of its own inventing?
The other is totally phony, based upon ignorance of what happens in industry.
The argument about staff associations is artificial and phony.
It only goes to show what phonies they are.
It will have to search the house, acting on infor- mation which in the first instance could have been phony.
