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BOGUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bogus mean?
• BOGUS (adjective)
The adjective BOGUS has 1 sense:
1. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Familiarity information: BOGUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Synonyms:
bastard; bogus; fake; phoney; phony
Similar:
counterfeit; imitative (not genuine; imitating something superior)
Context examples
He is a big, powerful chap, clean-shaven, and very swarthy— something like Aldridge, who helped us in the bogus laundry affair.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A summons, a bogus appointment, and all would be over.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The kicker to this story was that the man who printed these fraudulent checks called me a few days later, irate that the bank pulled back my money, causing the bogus checks to bounce.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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