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This hammy and phoney mumbo-jumbo, out at the Corn Exchange, is proving one of this Edinburgh Festival's bigger hits. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1992 )
In context of the events of the last nine months in the Middle East, it is all the easier to see Klinghoffer for what it is: hollow, pretentious, effete and phoney. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1991 )
'Until now it has been something of a phoney war,' said Mr Potts at Banque Indosuez. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1993 )
Anybody who knows me, or spends time with me, cannot believe that I am superficial, or phoney or dishonest or self-aggrandising. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1993 )
A real war, not a phoney war on drugs. ( Quelle: AP 1988 )
He is due to be questioned today about alleged phoney property deals conducted by Cariplo's pension fund to benefit the Christian Democrat and Socialist parties. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1994 )
Basket 'gardening' has spilt on to the streets in a style which belongs with that ultimate British phoney, the British pub. The Britain In Bloom Board goes solemnly round our townscapes, giving prizes to those which have done more than anyone else. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1994 )