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Example sentences for: phony

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Even at the corners of the mouth, the phony smile betrays itself by being subtly lopsided: Involuntary expressions, arising in the lower, unitary brain, affect both sides of the mouth equally, but willed expressions are governed by the cerebral hemispheres, the dominant of which sends a stronger signal.
The baby is asleep, and we think: OK, it's clever, but a little phony.
If you've been recruited to write op-ed opinion pieces praising Microsoft, as part of the phony Microsoft "grass roots" PR campaign revealed in Friday's Los Angeles Times , don't consider the rent paid just yet!
To do so Shlaes trots out the same phony numbers used by anti-tax members of Congress.
This story has some familiar elements that could give it legs: phony paperwork to disguise weapons' true destinations and colorful characters crossing back and forth between private deal-making and government-sanctioned covert operations.