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What does phonily mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a phony way, or to a phony extent
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Diana will teach Sandy something, and he will teach her something in turn, and then everything will fit tidily, phonily together, or something like that.
Unmistakably American though the film is, it's not remotely an exercise in Americana: there's nothing folksy or phonily lyrical, a la Terrence Malick, about its images.
But not phonily so: finding the funny has been as much psychological defence mechanism as professional obligation.
But actually, no, he didn't end it that way — he apologized again, phonily, to Sarah Palin, for a joke he told earlier this year, and thereby caused some people to wonder if this guy understood what apologizing was all about.
But why was Joan Rivers given so much time to phonily gush over him?
But instead of rising above class as a symbol of the nation, as its champions protest, the monarchy embodies social inequality at birth and fosters a phonily apolitical conservatism.

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