Gail Sheehy

Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.

American Writer

Nelsan Ellis

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

American Actor

James Gray

I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

American Director

Blu Cantrell

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

American Musician

John Robinson

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

Brian Austin Green

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

Tahar Rahim

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

French Actor

Charles R. Swindoll

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

American Clergyman

Famke Janssen

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

Dutch Actress

Ron Johnson

American

Used when someone hides their true feelings with fake behavior.

Emotional Disguise

Helps indicate skepticism about the authenticity of someone's actions or words.

Detecting Insincerity

In movies, a 'phoney' character might be a villain pretending to be friendly.

Cultural Reference

Indicates doubt about someone's true personality or intentions.

Personality Doubt

Emphasizes revealing the truth behind someone's fake persona.

Exposing Fraud

When someone's deceitful behavior undermines others' trust.

Trust Sabotage

 What are you going to do when you get to the country? - Well, I mean, I planted peppers last week. Now I'm going to plant tomatoes. - And this completely phony picture of this mob boss is ludicrous. - You think that had an influence on the federal judge when he held that you were right and the parole commission was wrong? - I think so. I think so. - He thinks a farmer ought to be able to seed, right? - I think so.

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 As an ob-gyn and pain-medicine doctor, I end up talking to my patients about poop more than you might think. Overall, I hear a lot of anxiety about it. Some people worry about not having a bowel movement once a day, even though its a phony metric. Other people struggle with constipation. Often, they don't get the treatment that they need,

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 or are touched by your genius. This isn't a personal favor, right? Feel proud of the ask -- it's incredible that you do this work. Don't try to be someone you're not, you're going to go to these meetings and think you need to big-shot it. Be yourself, authenticity matters, nobody likes a phony.

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 So, understand what -- your past limits what you can do in the future. When it comes to being what you say you are, the easiest mistake that companies make is that they advertise things that they are not. That's when you're perceived as fake, as a phony company --

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 phanie the bio phanie is all of the sound that's generated by organisms in a given habitat at one time and in one place and the third is all of the sound that we humans generate that's called anthro phony some of it is controlled

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 Then, one day, I found a detective's business card sitting on his kitchen table. He'd been ripped off by a phony roofing contractor. He'd given this guy a lot of money up front, and the guy took his money and then took off.

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 Now, retrofits are often accused of being examples of faux downtowns and instant urbanism, and not without reason; you don't get much more phony than an Astroturf town green. I have to say, these are very hybrid places.

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 is that a Feynman sandwich had a load of ham, but absolutely no baloney. What Feynman hated worse than anything else was intellectual pretense -- phoniness, false sophistication, jargon.

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 poorly good question the best the easier of the two outside is more so in green grass when it's very green because the leopard has got that more phony color to

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Phoney

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Detecting Insincerity

Cultural Reference

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