“He was such a phony, but he wanted to be real, unlike the marketeer, who was a phony but was comfortable being one.”

“The newspaper clipping turned out to be a phony. It was printed in a Long Beach print shop on the orders of a customer who paid cash and didn't give his name.”

“It was an age of excess, greed, and phoniness, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people.”

“The story that she couldn't remember appears to be a complete Pentagon confabulation in order to cover up the phoniness of the whole operation.”

“But there is a profound phoniness to this Latin lover that's as noticeable as the dime store toupee he sports.”

“The man calling himself Guy Incognito was quite obviously a phoney and duly ejected from Moe's Tavern.”

“Later, he took the diamond to the jeweler who told him that the diamond was a phoney.”

“Like me he understood that the people around him were fakes and phoneys and pretty soon I realised he hated school as much as I did.”

“What a miserable bunch of phoneys they are, both the traitors and their spin doctors.”

“Didn't Mr Romney deserve everything he got, given his opportunism over guns and immigration? Mr McCain is a real person in a world of plastic phoneys.”

“To be blunt about it, by any normal standard most of these guys are liars and phonies.”

“Long acquaintance with her own profession makes her impatient with fantasists and phonies.”

“People who have true family values live by them, while deviant phonies incessantly talk about them.”