Say, what about this here bundle o' phoney hid in a hollow stump?
Maybe we ought to cut out all this phoney progress and phoney peace that passeth all understanding.
They was a fellow named Looney Hogan use to have them phoney hunches, and he use to tell me what he saw after he had 'em.
If he thought we thought there was really sump'n phoney bout him an' Timmy tonight, we couldn't breathe no more without him knowin' it.
I didn't like the way Barker bore down on you downstairs an' it give me the hunch mebbe he's too phoney even for us--see!
Eet look what ya call phoney the way thees Barker don' look at us an' how he bring us here to thees spooky, dirty place, eh?
If her seven clients hadn't been so phoney she might have gotten away with it.
A good-looking mustache, well groomed and shaped, but phoney as a wax banana.
Aleck could smell a Phoney before he opened the Envelope, because that is how he got His.
It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.
None of this was standard for a phoney promotion deal.
He had been taken off the job he'd spent years learning to do acceptably, to phoney a personal satisfaction for the son-in-law of one of the partners of the firm he worked for.
I'm not going to have even a phoney screen-show built around Babs and me for people to gabble about!
To talk about horology on the moon wouldn't add to Dabney's stature as a phoney scientist.
Don't you know that you an' me stand to swing if any of de bunch gets gabby in front of disphoney punk?
Get him over to the Forty-second Street dump on a proposition to play two-handed stud with Harry there, then pull off a phoney pinch for gambling.
Tell him to go into this game, and that just when they have the money and the cards on the table, you'll pull off a phoney pinch and have your fake officer take the money and cards for evidence, then you'll split up with him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phoney" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
