Significats de as phony en anglès

Gurney suspected that her earnest, collegial expression was as phony as her smile.

They added plenty of acidity without coming across as phony.

Something about these self-proclaimed terrorists-orPeople's Revolutionaries-struckhim as phony.

Your accent's as phony as the pear-shaped tones of a Midwestern garden club president.

That adoption was as phony as a three-dollar bill.

Scott's aloofness came across as phony, but Tyrone understood the awkwardness and let it pass.

Paul Begala, a 1992 Clinton campaign aide, blames this change on the media, claiming that it sees loyalty as phony.

The whole time he spoke, Brooks gave him an all-attention smile that looked as phony as a tinfoil Christmas tree.

It was an immense lie, as most lies in Washington were, and Freeman accepted it with a smile twice as phony.

Although he couldn't yet prove it, Roy was now convinced that the name Spencer Grant was as phony as all the others.

Most Americans admired Hillary Clinton's staunch display of solidarity with her embattled husband, but the nation's moral elite derided it as phony.

I never quite liked it: It suggested something emotional about the experience of driving the car that struck me on some level as phony.

It's as phony comin' from you as it was from him." Though she wondered at that moment which "him" she referred to.

I smiled at her; I was trying to be reassuring, but it was as phony as Nimdok's bravado: "Give us weapons!" he demanded.

It should have confirmed his suspicion that she was just as phony as all the others, but Lauren's phoniness had nothing to do with flirting.

He told me their names, though I don't recall what they were, and besides, they were no doubt as phony as Jack Taylor's had been.