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- noun Plural form of
phoney .
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Examples
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So they started a special section of their website dedicated to exposing "phoneys".
Tin Soldiers 2010
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The people who were in it only know what was happening in their vicinity, but the phoneys, the wannabes have all the details.
Tin Soldiers 2010
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They hid behind the Lords name and the Lord has let them be exposed for the phoneys they were.
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The Transbad Saints, on the other hand, are a slick crowd of phoneys led by the posturing, epicene Helmet Al Weaver, who steal a No 1 hit from Keva and head for the States.
Powder – review 2011
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Let these phoneys have it and quit pretending this is a democracy
Senate Democrats moving towards dropping Medicare buy-in 2009
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Will he call the entire House and Senate Democrats a bunch of liars and phoneys?
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Bala just pointed me to a TOI article that tells us about our noble Govt moves to cut off phoneys in Net telephony.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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All people have to do is spot the phoneys and email them to us with their name.
Fun and games during NZ Book Month Joan Druett 2008
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She thinks the process of politics is full of phoneys, and that she doesn't have to play the game.
The Democratic Convention. Ann Althouse 2008
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Guys who answer Marianne are sanctimonious phoneys.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Re-examining Television of the 1960s and 1970s: 2007
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