phoney betydelse and definition

Exempel på phoney

• She would have to admit she was a phoney.

• You're not a proper actor, you're a phoney.

• Voters can smell phoneys a mile away.

• 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.