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1  They sound so phony when they talk.
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2  She probably knew what a phony slob he was.
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3  I should've given her a phony name, but I didn't think of it.
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4  All he had on underneath was a phony shirt collar, but no shirt or anything.
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5  I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phony every minute.
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6  I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise Sherman.
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7  The funny part was, they probably met each other just once, at some phony party.
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8  It was partly a phony kind of friendly, but at least he always said hello to Ackley and all.
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9  I stopped on the way, though, and picked up Ackley's hand, and gave him a big, phony handshake.
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10  He was the kind of a phony that have to give themselves room when they answer somebody's question.
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11  I just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.
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12  The worst part was, the jerk had one of those very phony, Ivy League voices, one of those very tired, snobby voices.
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13  I figured that anybody that hates the movies as much as I do, I'd be a phony if I let them stick me in a movie short.
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14  I sort of hated old Sally by the time we got in the cab, after listening to that phony Andover bastard for about ten hours.
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15  Anyway, when he was finished, and everybody was clapping their heads off, old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow.
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16  One of those stories with a lot of phony, lean-jawed guys named David in it, and a lot of phony girls named Linda or Marcia that are always lighting all the goddam Davids' pipes for them.
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17  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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