Words similar to phony

Example sentences for: phony

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The scam involved phony storefront medical supply businesses being reimbursed by the state for providing supplies that never were purchased for patients who didn't exist.
Slate's Walter Kirn, however, dissents, condemning Nothing Sacred as self-righteous "phony Hollywood iconoclasm."
In an earlier dispatch, Chatterbox said it was "possible the heavy-smoker bit was a phony novelistic detail that Woodward got wrong or invented."
Economic Growth Might Be Bigger Than Any Believe," all of which have declared the small-business lobby's claim "phony."
He was everything I and my friends rejected--the phony suave with fake self-control, the finger-popping slick.