bogusness

bo·gus (b

adj.

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

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

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

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Adj.

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"

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

bogus [ˈbəʊgəs] adj

[asylum seeker] → faux*(fausse)

[claim, figure] → bidon inv

[company] → fantôme

a bogus marriage → un mariage blanc

bogus

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

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

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

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artificial
assumed
bastard
bona fide
counterfeit
dummy
ersatz
fake
false
fictitious
forged
genuine
meretricious
mock
phoney
phony
pretended
pseudo-
sham

Other "Key Characteristics of Bogusness," according to the invaluable political rumor-busting Web site FactCheck.

Baracknophobia! by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

For my money, V for Vendetta's warmed-over 1984 plot is the height of bogusness, a story that congratulates itself for daring to stand against a rightwing totalitarian state so over the top that nobody would support it in the first place.

Alan Moore comes like a thief in the night: a writer with a ... by Cavanaugh, Tim / Reason

has a good item on the bogusness of those horrifying reports that Jews and other religious minorities in Iran would have to wear colored badges identifying them as infidels.

The Iranian Badge Story by Observer Staff / The New York Observer

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