Sentences with phrase «phony stories»
The phrase "phony stories" means made-up, false, or fake tales. Full definition
Hacking and releasing information (illegal), setting up real - ish looking news sites with phony stories that opportunistic partisans would link to as proof that their side was pure and the other evil, etc, and even probes of state and municipal voting systems, which was especially worrysome.
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The new historian at Cooperstown, Lee Allen, talks long and learnedly about the game and has a positive passion for debunking phony stories
The president then went on to call allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia a «phony story.»
Links to the phony stories are also accompanied by posts that create false urgency and tell readers to buy now.»
Fact - checking site Snopes was quick to point out that this is yet another phony story about the deathbed conversion of an unbeliever.
Three days later the body is gone and the authorities are coming up with a phony story to cover it up.
The curse of Allen's calling is the phony story accepted as true.
Another phony story, put out by the same sportscaster, had it that when William Howard Taft was a stripling the Red Stockings offered him a contract, and he would have signed it had not his father objected.
This is the ultimate goal of most scammers and they are experts at devising all sorts of heart - wrenching and phony stories to elicit your sympathy — and money!
What's worse is that this film only serves to exacerbate the problem rather than bring levity, because it clearly displays a loud and obnoxious Black man, speaking broken English and offensive slang, making up a phony story of police brutality simply as an excuse for his idiotic, reckless behavior.
So he concocts a phony story to put Ted off her trail — she's ballooned to fish - like proportions, she lives in a wheelchair, etc. — and starts wooing her himself, putting her under surveillance and eavesdropping on her conversations to get the inside track on her heart.
They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story.
Links to the phony stories are also accompanied by posts that create false urgency and tell readers to buy now.»