0 not sincere or not real -- 虚伪的;假冒的,伪造的
All salespeople seem to have the same phoney smile. 所有推销员的微笑似乎都一样,假惺惺的。
With all respect to the motor industry, not all "phoney" cars are built in backyards.
I referred to these "phoney" cars built in backyards, not to the general run of cars.
I am told by some of the providers that there has been no phoney business and no bunching up of contracts.
I hate these double negatives: they sound "phoney" to me, and in this particular case they always have done.
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 am quite deliberately saying product counterfeiter, rather than refer to a peddler of phoney products, which sounds very harsh.
I am referring first of all to the phoney debate on gelatine.
In reality, a conditional censure is a phoney censure.