About The Word Bogus
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Bogus
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What's The Definition Of Bogus?
[adj] fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bogus: bastard | counterfeit | fake | imitative | phoney | phony Related Terms | Find terms related to Bogus: affected | apocryphal | artificial | assumed | bastard | brummagem | colorable | colored | counterfeit | counterfeited | distorted | dressed up | dummy | embellished | embroidered | ersatz | factitious | fake | faked | false | falsified | feigned | fictitious | fictive | forged | fraudulent | garbled | illegitimate | imitation | junky | make-believe | man-made | mock | perverted | phony | pinchbeck | pretended | pseudo | put-on | quasi | queer | self-styled | sham | shoddy | simulated | snide | so-called | soi-disant | spurious | supposititious | synthetic | tin | tinsel | titivated | twisted | unauthentic | ungenuine | unnatural | unreal | warped See Also | Bogus In Webster's Dictionary \Bo"gus\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied
to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
[Colloq. U. S.]
\Bo"gus\, n. A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett. |
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