Our crook-sniffing equipment is sensitive and we can usually smell a phony a good way off.
They quickly expose him as a phony, a buffoon, and a talentless hack, and then spend the rest of the movie punishing him.
To Jackson, Clinton was a phony, a man who pretended to be your best friend one minute and forgot you the next, a man who would do anything to get ahead.
Keeping collateral at a phony valuation fraud and a distortion of bank reporting.
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In the end, we got us a fairly simple case of Tomsha-Miguel writing a phony-baloney letter from a make-believe congressional aide to herself, and then sending this fantasy correspondence to her unsuspecting client in a oddball attempt to convince him that she had resolved the IRS problem.
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But it would be a miracle if this phony money created a real boom.
"It's so easy to type up a phony one, " says Jay Starkman, a certified public accountant in Atlanta.
While those caught simply using a phony document to buy alcohol typically escape with a community punishment in Maryland, Jacoby says, it will remain on their record for three years - with potentially serious consequences when they apply for graduate jobs.
In one letter, Chapman said he'd let Spiro decide whether Lennon was a "phony" or not, a reference to troubled "Catcher in the Rye" narrator Holden Caulfield, who refers to people as "phonies" in the book, written by J.
We have a phony psychic whose "readings" actually are near the mark and a wealth of coincidences the author renders plausibly.
At Kennedy, one suspect was removed from a plane and two others -- including a man with a phony pilot's license -- were taken into custody at a pilot's lounge.
Despite the Speaker referring to it as a phony issue, we think there are signs that Republicans understand that it would be a terrible thing for the 7.4 million Americans who would be affected if these loan rates were allowed to double.
"It's a phony charge, " Fabiani said, adding that "the shots are being called by Newt, " a reference to House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The idea of the New, Humble Jets sounded unnatural and a little phony, designed more to placate media yowlers and fans than a real reflection of a cultural shift.
One such scheme appears to have been a phony private placement in Fremont, Calif.
We now live in a phony economic world where central bankers rule without check.
Among the various phony announcements included a merger agreement between Microsoft and Irvine, Calif.
Critics are left with the option of attacking him as an extremist or a phony.
According to Grasso, Spitzer is a political grandstander, a serial leaker and a phony.
By repeatedly pushing him on specifics, Gore exposed Bush for what he really is: a phony.
This is delicious red meat, easy for the tough-talkers to flex a phony biceps about wimp culture.
Somebody is preparing a phony return for you and they phony it up extra without telling you about it.
His critics find it phony -- a redemption tour with no true redemption.
Each accuses the other of owning a phony set of unregistered bearer shares.
This was offered as proof that the President is a phony, when an equally valid explanation is that people laugh at funerals all the time.
In one, the phony Ballmer sends a photo to an account made to look like it belongs to the former Microsoft CEO, philanthropist Bill Gates.
Scratch a political populist and you'll find a phony, every time.
An even sadder case was that of Thomas Chambers, clearly a legitimate pastor, who managed to blunder into about everything a phony church does, including corporation sole.
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He gives the victim a phony control number to document the fake fraud investigation, and with that, he asks for the three-digit code on the back of the card.
But, barring some remarkable change in attitude, Obama is mostly irrelevant except to the extent that he can make matters worse by luring Republicans into a phony tax-hike deal.
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