bogus
IPA: bˈoʊgʌs
noun
- (US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses.
- (US, dialect, archaic) Counterfeit money.
- A surname.
adjective
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
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Examples of "bogus" in Sentences
- The invocation of holy war is bogus.
- It has the ring of the bogus about it.
- The story about the store sounds bogus.
- The point concerns the bogus categories.
- All the speech and the tiranny stuff is bogus.
- I still think the deletion of the image was bogus.
- The touchstone is bogus accusations and exaggeration.
- Bogus, laughable, non sensical and contemptuous of the truth.
- An example of the persistence of bogus information in the 'pedia.
- Again, is this an outgrowth of the bogus info in the article on Siegenthaler
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