Example sentences for: phony

How can you use “phony” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Actually, that last bit about having students gather daily environmental information isn't phony.

  • Slate's Walter Kirn, however, dissents, condemning Nothing Sacred as self-righteous "phony Hollywood iconoclasm."

  • For example, GlaxoSmithKline marketed paroxetine (Paxil) by promoting the previously obscure diagnosis of “social anxiety disorder” through phony support groups, celebrity spokespeople, a direct-to-consumer illness awareness campaign, and generous payments to key opinion leaders [22].

  • He was calmer and seemed much less phony.

  • 2) Clinton has the rhetorical grace to pull off such an apology in a way that doesn't seem phony (he'll blame it on his own big heart, his fierce desire not to hurt wife and child).


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