bogus (redirected from bogusly)

bo·gus  (bgs)

adj.

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

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[From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money.]

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bogus [ˈbəʊgəs]

adj

spurious or counterfeit; not genuine a bogus note

[from bogus apparatus for making counterfeit money; perhaps related to bogey¹]

bogusly  adv

bogusness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

bogus - fraudulent; having a misleading appearance bastard, fake, phoney, phony counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

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bogus

adjective fake, false, artificial, forged, dummy, imitation, sham, fraudulent, pseudo (informal), counterfeit, spurious, ersatz, phoney or phony (informal) bogus insurance claims
real, true, actual, genuine, authentic, dinkum (Austral & N.Z. informal)

Translations

bogus [ˈbəʊgəs] ADJ [claim] → falso, fraudulento; [interest] → fingido; [doctor, policeman] → falso

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bogus [ˈbəʊgəs] adj

[asylum seeker] → faux*(fausse)

[claim, figure] → bidon inv

[company] → fantôme

a bogus marriage → un mariage blanc

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bogus

adj doctor, lawyer, name → falsch; pearls also, document → gefälscht; company, transaction → Schwindel-; claim → erfunden; bogus asylum seekers → Scheinasylanten pl (pej)

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bogus [ˈbəʊgəs] adj (jewels, claim) → falso/a, fasullo/a; (person, attitude) → finto/a

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bogus

adj bogus [ˈbəugəs]

false; not genuine She was fooled by his bogus identity card. vals, vervalste زائِفٌ флашив falešný uægte; falsk unecht πλαστός, ψεύτικος falso võltsitud قلابی؛ دروغین väärennetty faux מִתחָזֶה, מְזוָּיף जाली, मिथ्या, नकली lažan hamis palsu óekta, falskur falso 偽の 가짜의 netikras, fiktyvus neīsts; viltots; fiktīvs palsu vals falsk, uekte podrobiony falso fals поддельный falošný ponarejen lažan falsk, oäkta ไม่แท้ sahte, taklit 偽造的 підроблений; фіктивний جعلی ، نقلی giả 伪造的