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 Translation for 'phoney' from English to Slovak
ADJ   phoney | phonier | phoniest
SYNO bastard | bogus | dissembler | ...
umelý {adj} [falošný, predstieraný]phoney
predstieraný {adj}phoney [coll.]
falošný {adj} [predstieraný]phoney [coll.]
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Usage Examples English
  • The mono tracks were treated with "phoney stereo" in the original stereo version.
  • In 2001 Mansell stated that "there were more phoney than real Aborigines in Tasmania and more than half the voters in the 1996 ATSIC election were not Aboriginal".
  • The guys are broke as usual and get involved in trying set up a phoney accident which would get them compensation.
  • In 1893 Gritzner published his authoritative book on faleristics and as a herald in the Prussian Home-Office he was involved in exposing several phoney noblemen.
  • Despite this, co-writer Silver was upset by the lack of accuracy in the film, claiming it was "phoney".

  • The "jungle" vegetation, from three different continents, an extremely phoney looking rubber mask used for close ups of a roaring leopard and the clumsy back-projection in the "underwater" scenes make it a treat for lovers of the ludicrous.
  • After the phoney war period, Shulman signed up for the Canadian army, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Canadian Armoured Corps and posted to England in June 1943.
  • In his Diary of war, he recounts at length his phoney war and the debacle of 1940.
  • This referendum has been labelled both "phoney" and "rigged", as the Turkish government organised tens of thousands of Turks from outside Alexandretta to register as citizens and vote.
  • Initially, most reviewers received the book positively, but after the 'phoney war' ended, public and elite opinion turned sharply against appeasement of any sort.

  • Frequent themes included phoney English sentences, stories on how pathetic the lifestyle of the poor is, and hazing Cassandra, at times with allusions to Aracy Balabanian's career.
  • The girl tries to move him with phoney and pathetic family stories, hiding she is actually a prostitute.
  • 61st Medium Regiment saw service in France during the phoney war (1939–1940); after the Dunkirk evacuation, it would remain in the United Kingdom until returning to Europe in June 1944 with 21st Army Group.
  • Richard "Dickie" Foster is the brains of a quartet of con-artists that includes 'Giltedge', a fake bond salesman; 'Painless', a gold-tooth-stealing phoney dentist; and 'Gorgeous', Dickies girlfriend.
  • During the phoney war, [...] was engaged in developing the floating mine required for Churchill's planned Operation Royal Marine which aimed to disrupt German shipping in their inland waterways by dropping these mines into the river at Strasbourg.

  • The play represents the emotions and the types of people involved in the riots and their climax which occur in any revolution — the realist and the idealist; the pacifist and the militant; the honest and the phoney; and the martyrdom and suffering of the comparatively innocent.
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