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bogus

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1. bogus - Noun

2. bogus - Adjective

3. bogus - Adjective Satellite

4. Bogus - Proper noun

Meaning

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

A liquor made of rum and molasses.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus. Peter Medawar

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. Kevin Mitnick

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. Christopher Hitchens

In academia much bogus knowledge is tolerated in the name of academic freedom – which is like allowing for the sale of contaminated food in the name of free enterprise. I submit that such tolerance is suicidal: that the serious students must be protected against the "anything goes” crowd. Mario Bunge

There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief... Bob Barr

The whole picture is complicated by the stockists and merchants who will try to exploit any shortages that may appear. The result is this. The feedback information from the industry's environment consists, first and foremost, of a forward order load. Much of this "demand for steel" will be bogus. Anthony Stafford Beer

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