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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An apparatus for coining counterfeit money.
  2. Counterfeit; spurious; sham: originally applied in the United States to counterfeit money, but now to anything based on sham or false pretense: as, a bogus claim; a bogus government.
  3. n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
  2. adj. Undesirable or harmful.
  3. adj. Incorrect, useless, or broken.
  4. adj. 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).
  5. adj. Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
  6. n. US, dialect A liquor made of rum and molasses.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Colloq. U. S. Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
  2. n. Local, U. S. A liquor made of rum and molasses.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Etymologies

  1. From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It appears, however, that the term bogus is more straightforward.”

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  • “Since the term bogus in the article is applied to treatments, which of themselves cannot be wilful in anyway, it seems to me that the judge's ruling could follow the logic that Singh is accusing them of promoting bogus (meaning ineffective) treatments, i.e. he is accusing them of promoting treatments that they know to be bogus (or ineffective)... and in doing so he is accusing them of being intentionally dishonest.”

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  • “New Yorkers Don't Want Cold Clam Chowder Tim Lorito, the founder of the local sports bar chain Canz-a-Citi Roadhouse, is tired of politicians making what he calls "bogus" bets on the Super Bowl.”

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  • “Mr. Alva, the X-ray entrepreneur, says government officials sought bribes for everything from speeding up his business permit to resolving what he calls bogus child-labor claims.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Bribes, Bureaucracy Hobble India's New Entrepreneurs

  • “A shining example of what I call a bogus mortgage lender.”

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  • “A month later, as she was to testify before a Senate committee about her treatment by the FBI, she learned she was the target of what she calls a bogus criminal investigation into allegations that she'd passed unspecified classified documents to an attorney.”

    Newsweek: Abused And Confused

  • “We're investigating what they describe as bogus donors.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2008

  • “Fighting to save his job and lashing out at what he calls the bogus charge against him.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007

  • “LOS ANGELES - The judge presiding over the trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician blasted a website Thursday for posting what he described as "bogus" information about a questionnaire prospective jurors are filling out.”

    chron.com Chronicle

  • “Nationally, the Stephen Harper Conservatives have been more adroit, channelling nativist resentment against what they call bogus refugees while welcoming those temporary foreign workers whom Canadian businesses want to hire.”

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. spurious
  2. fictitious
  1. sham
  2. pretended
  1. broken
  2. phony
  1. illegal
  2. fake
  1. useless
  2. incorrect
  1. counterfeit

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘bogus’

  1. imitative
  1. counterfeit

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. phony
  2. fraudulent
  3. valid
  1. spurious
  2. fake
  3. credible
  1. unfounded
  2. counterfeit
  3. specious
  1. postal
  2. false
  3. fictitious
  1. untrue
  2. unsubstantiated
  3. authentic
  1. self-serving
  2. above
  3. incorrect

reverse dictionary (5)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bogus
  1. pinchbeck
  1. cauline
  1. snipe hunt
  1. spin

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  • brtom "Order in court! The accused will now make a bogus statement."
    Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Feb 5, 2007

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