pseudo-friends

"Choosing which of the people in your network are stimulating enough for this distinction will, of course, immediately exclude a bunch of half-assed, pseudo-friends who, because of their inherent inferiority and complete and utter douchiness, no longer belong among those you would actually give a crap about if they suddenly dropped dead."

James Napoli: Facebook Urges Users to Create List of Close Enemies James Napoli 2011

But as their orbits begin to entwine, what a constellation of stars dance in attendance: friends (humorist S.J. Perelman, who married West's sister Laura) and pseudo-friends (Dashiell Hammett), good and bad editors (Bennett Cerf in both roles).

Nathanael and the Damsel Molly Haskell 2010

But as their orbits begin to entwine, what a constellation of stars dance in attendance: friends (humorist S.J. Perelman, who married West's sister Laura) and pseudo-friends (Dashiell Hammett), good and bad editors (Bennett Cerf in both roles).

Nathanael and the Damsel Molly Haskell 2010

We invite ourselves along to events, mooch off our pseudo-friends, cozy up to people uninvited, horn in on conversations and talk on our cellphone while we're interacting with our service industry.

A Long-Winded and Somewhat Reluctant Do & Don't List for Newbies Wanting to Reach Out to Authors 2008

But as their orbits begin to entwine, what a constellation of stars dance in attendance: friends (humorist S.J. Perelman, who married West's sister Laura) and pseudo-friends (Dashiell Hammett), good and bad editors (Bennett Cerf in both roles).

Nathanael and the Damsel Molly Haskell 2010

There have been few better speeches in the Senate in recent times than Senator Hawley's temperate but cutting reply to these pseudo-friends of labor.

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various

Your pseudo-friends have presented the supposed German terms of peace to Mr. Stenson.

The Devil's Paw 1906

Having fought out the battle, and having stricken away the negro's fetters, these pseudo-friends of his insist that, in spite of the cramping process which he has undergone from childhood, he is a mental athlete, and suddenly capable of all the work for which others have had to be trained.

London: Saturday, August 12, 1865 1865

Page 14 grieved by the repeated attempts of certain pseudo-friends to pass off this flimsy and ridiculous apology as an able defence of the South.

Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves. William Andrew 1856

Such was the freedom these pseudo-friends of liberty afforded to those who dissented from their opinions; and thus was loyalty (for no other crime was laid to their charge) punished with a severity, which regular governments scruple to use against the most atrocious offenders.

The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805