What's the difference between faker and phoney?

Faker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more Food is not the only sector to suffer.
  • (2) There were some indications that high hostility scores on the Rorschach tended to be worldly wise, covertly hostile, independent, stubborn, and poor fakers.
  • (3) Results showed that a knowledgeable group of informed fakers had great difficulty reproducing the test performance of individuals with left fronto-temporal impairment.
  • (4) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more “He knew about the rules but did not respect them, hoping that customs officers would not check his vehicle.” Last August, Russia banned the import of dairy products, meat and produce from the EU and other western countries to retaliate against sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
  • (5) Fleet Street showed how roughly it treats slick fakers when they break their word these days by describing Clegg as an "honourable", "strong", "hard-headed" and "mature" politician, whose U-turn on tuition fees proved he was "serious about government".
  • (6) There are a lot of voices – in government, in the media, even in the street – bleating about the fakers, whispering about how cushy it is to present your disability and get a big fat cheque.
  • (7) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more Over the weekend, food standards officials said about 600 tonnes of food had been destroyed since the new “destroy on site” rules came into effect on 6 August.
  • (8) While no banknote is ever completely counterfeit proof, introducing polymer will make things much harder and more expensive for fakers.
  • (9) "We are concerned that this narrative of benefit scroungers or fakers connected to the welfare reform bill does risk stigmatising all people with a disability," he said.
  • (10) It all came toppling down on 11 June this year, when she was asked in a television interview: “Are you African American?” Her stunned reply – saying she didn’t understand the question – was swiftly interpreted as evidence she was a “race faker”.
  • (11) With this error he actually demonstrates the exact opposite of his case – he shows that once again the Tories are way behind the curve at best, and outright fakers a lot more of the time.
  • (12) You only catch the most obvious fakers, and only a small share of them.” There is also the problem of relying on whistleblowers , who face the thankless and emotionally draining prospect of accusing their own colleagues of fraud.

Phoney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
  • (2) Criticism of the European Union has for too long been dominated by a phoney chauvinistic Euroscepticism that ignores the real interests that have driven its development.
  • (3) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
  • (4) Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phoney tits and everything.
  • (5) But surely the problem is not the display of antipathy - it is the phoney feel of it all, as opposing parties score points like public school debaters.
  • (6) This month the phoney war over Euro membership will get slightly more real.
  • (7) In his speech at the party's spring conference in Birmingham, Cable accused the Conservatives of engaging in a "phoney war over cuts" that would affect millions of lives.
  • (8) Sure, activists are interested in how much the candidate can raise, but not how much they can raise here.” Even the politicians’ harshest critics concede there is little chance of being able to inflict meaningful punishment on phoney primary candidates, preferring instead to see any FEC appeal as a symbolic attempt to draw attention to how broken the system is.
  • (9) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
  • (10) Glade discovered that Whittamore's ultimate source was a civilian worker at Wandsworth police station, south London, Paul Marshall, who was logging phoney 999 calls in order to justify accessing the computer records of public figures who were of interest to newspapers.
  • (11) The pair met in London, but the phoney deal fell through.
  • (12) In a foreword to what Open Britain calls the “Brexit contract”, the MPs write: “The phoney war is over.
  • (13) He also attacked the Tories too for waging a "phoney war" about when to make cuts and claimed neither they nor the government had the "courage to come up with the details of the cuts we will need in the years ahead to tackle Britain's deficit".
  • (14) Caspar Field: With Nintendo now clearly in another market segment, this is a phoney war, and I think both PS4 and Xbox One will sell well.
  • (15) Sly Stallone is a real athlete; he gets stuck in.” But he’s riled by the number of phoneys he sees around him.
  • (16) Mr Cameron has tried to spin out the phoney war on Europe for as long as possible, hoping not to provoke his backbenchers unnecessarily and trying to persuade the more reasonable ones to accept his approach.
  • (17) At first, when she came home, there was the "phoney war".
  • (18) At some point, maybe we should all sit and have a think about what kind of politicians we actually want – because right now it feels like a choice between the careerist and the phoney clown.
  • (19) Perhaps young people who did not know the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation are more susceptible to the phoney scaremongering of today.
  • (20) "In a sense, that will be the end of this phoney war," added Butcher.