phony-baloney

Definitions

Examples

• It just gets a bit phony whenever she wavers and pretends otherwise.

• He was arrested trying to flee to Jordan using phony identification.

• Surely they believe as well that the very concept of an ethnic nation “chosen” by God is phony and unjust.

• This single program alone has generated tens of thousands of phony Twitterers.

• In 2012, Facebook announced that 83 million profiles—pushing 10 percent of the total number on the site—were phony.

• I would even, I decided, stoop to having him thrown in jail on a phony charge, if that should be necessary.

• And you knew, right away, that Swami was a phony from Flatbush.

• The Swami was an obvious phony of the baldest fakery, yet he had something.

• He had less than a hundred credits, a knife, a deck of phony cards, and a yellow ticket.

• Unless the money is phony, or the pass is phony in which case the turnstile locks and all hell breaks loose.