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Word: phoniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...hope that your elaborate spread on how we smog-eaten Angelenos all drive snappy Cadillacs into our private swimming pools doesn't create a stampede of suckers to come out here! It stinks out here; the phoniest town ever slapped together by stucco and fog, and sprinkled by glib-line underhanded promoters . . . "Go back East, young man, and eat again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...galleries howled and booed as this phoniest of all parades proceeded; they watched silently as the Kellymen shuffled off in magnificent embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: How the Bosses Did It | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

From this point on The Outlaw scurries pell-mell toward the inevitable day when Billy and Rio ride off astride Red, the horse, into the phoniest Hollywood sunset yet photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hughes's Western | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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