bogus
adjective/ˈbəʊɡəs/
/ˈbəʊɡəs/
- pretending to be real or true synonym false
- a bogus doctor/contract
- Bogus claims of injury by workers are costing companies thousands of pounds.
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc2- 75 paintings which art experts dismiss as bogus
- The dinosaur bones turned out to be bogus.
- The bogus doctor had been working from premises in Chelsea.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- dismiss something as
- …
- completely
- entirely
- totally
- …
- turn out to
Word Originlate 18th cent. (originally US, denoting a machine for making counterfeit money): of unknown origin.Definitions on the go
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