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Перевод: phoney

[прилагательное]
ложный; поддельный; фальшивый; дутый; странный;
[существительное]
обман ; обманщик ; подделка ; жулик

Тезаурус:

1. Summers, for instance, said to me "Elbing, old boy, I can see there is nothing phoney about you.'"
2. But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney.
3. He dismissed conducting as a phoney profession, responsible for turning players into mindless dependents, powerless without the hypnotic beat of a little white stick in front of them.
4. Those words uttered by some political leaders would sound banal and from one or two others downright phoney.
5. Howe's speech effectively marked the end of the phoney war and the start of the public campaign for votes.
6. It makes none because whereas The Smiths attract the same kind of audience (who hold intense faith) as U2 and The Jam (which is basically the male dominated sexually repressed types who are also the essence of heavy metal) they still refuse to display the schoolboy phoney surreal imagery of those people.
7. In the deceptive lull of the Phoney War, Cardiff High School was very much as Goronwy Rees remembered it:
8. As everyone knows these first alarms were phoney.
9. Soccer Holland 0, Brazil 1 Brazil win a phoney war.
10. All week the phoney war has raged as the populations of San Francisco and Oakland have, under licence of sport, declared their allegiance to one of two baseball teams who tonight march out on to a field to contest the title of world champions.
11. Shakespeare brings out the worst in him, and this book is fuller of phoney, slapdash theories, illegitimate leaps and rushes where angels fear to tread, and discredited references, Sufic influences, Shamanic initiations, dreams, Black Elk, and Idries Shah on the Rosicrucians, than anything since Robert Graves.
12. Goldsmith talks with some conviction, but she is the first to admit that she is a phoney.
13. People respond to gut genuineness in a way that they cannot respond to phoney image.