adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a phony driver's license
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a phony Italian accent
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has scheduled a phony parliamentary election for October 15, and his own term expires next year.
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His outsider image, to start with, is phony .
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Many such claims in the Middle East are phony .
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On many other cuts, though, he goofs around in a self- deprecating way that actually seems phony .
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People have been peddling phony weight-loss elixirs since before the turn of the century.
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There was, however, nothing phony about his powers of connoisseurship, and looking at pictures with him was fascinating.
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Was the card a phony card?
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Was the number a phony number?