Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- adjective Slang Not conforming with what one would hope to be the case; disappointing or unfair.
- interjection Used to indicate disagreement or displeasure with another's actions or a circumstance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liquor made of rum and molasses.
- noun An apparatus for coining counterfeit money.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U. S. A liquor made of rum and molasses.
- adjective Colloq. U. S. Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Counterfeit orfake ; notgenuine . - adjective Undesirable or harmful.
- adjective
Incorrect ,useless , orbroken . - adjective philately Of a totally
fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused withforgery , which is an illegitimate copy of agenuine stamp). - adjective Based on
false ormisleading information or unjustifiedassumptions . - noun US, dialect A
liquor made ofrum andmolasses .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
What Should Simon Singh Do Next? Jack of Kent 2009
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It appears, however, that the term bogus is more straightforward.
What the British Chiropractic Association - and English Libel Law - should do next Jack of Kent 2009
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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.
Bribes, Bureaucracy Hobble India's New Entrepreneurs Amol Sharma 2011
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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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A shining example of what I call a bogus mortgage lender.
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A shining example of what I call a bogus mortgage lender.
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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.
Abused And Confused 2008
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We're investigating what they describe as bogus donors.
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Fighting to save his job and lashing out at what he calls the bogus charge against him.
brtom commented on the word bogus
"Order in court! The accused will now make a bogus statement."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 5, 2007