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"Phony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is! Catch Jevne wearing anything that's phony. I saw her at the theatre one night. Dressed! Well, you'd have thought that birds of paradise were national pests, like English sparrows. Not that she looked loud. But that quiet, rich elegance, you know, that just smells of money. ...
— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber
... up was foxy, though," commented Mylert, the burly catcher of the Giants. "There are no 'ifs or ands' about it like most phony stories where the fellow's trying to hedge in case someone comes back at him. It sounds like straight goods. It's the most truthful looking ...
— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick
... much like deeply pitted pieces of rock. The larger one, roughly pear-shaped and about a quarter of a mile in its greatest dimension, was actually that—a huge hunk of rock. The smaller—much smaller—of the two was not what it appeared to be. It was a phony. Anyone who had been able to conduct a very close personal inspection of it would have recognized it for what it was—a ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett |
Words linked to "Phony" : beguiler, Tartufe, deceiver, Tartuffe, sweet talker, cheater, slicker, cheat, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre, imitative, counterfeit, fake, smoothy, smoothie, trickster, charmer |
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