Bogus
bogus (adjective) - pretending to be real, but notbogus insurance claims
lodged a bogus insurance claim
bogus products
a world of miracle cures, bogus products and dubious business practices
bogus claims about a product
the company agreed to stop making false claims about a bogus diet aid
Joan, look, something is bogus here. You're being fed incorrect information.
bogus film auditions to ripoff young screen hopefuls
bogus poems of impenetrable obscurity were foisted on a literary magazine
a bogus offer
bogus items and services for sale
bogus promotions
bogus health care promotions
That's totally bogus
a bogus sham
bogus credentials
provide bogus explanations
providing a bogus excuse for being late
call Frank with a bogus order now, just to see whether he catches it
to her he represented everything bogus and hollow
investigating reports of bogus door-to-door charity collections
some schemers also hawked bogus loans, insurance, and other financial products at rock-bottom rates
bogus arguments
bogus arguments about the burden of the debt
writing a bogus pamphlet
bogus transactions
bogus statistics
distorted by bogus statistics
income levels-admittedly distorted by bogus official statistics
bogus empirical evidence
bogus invoices
a charge of arranging bogus stock deals to create tax losses
but everything was bogus....
a bogus beggar is regarded as a rogue but not as a thief…
bogus officers, who were dressed in full police uniform, tied the sixty year old woman up after she let them into her house
bogus concepts
employed largely bogus concepts of sexism' to make people feel guilty about traditional sexual roles and attitudes
he lobs three softball questions to the foreign minister, to which he receives three bogus answers
the smarmy and bogus rhetoric of inclusion and diversity, which conceals what everyone knows is really going on
There is indeed something disturbing, if not downright bogus, about the idea that children must be hoodwinked into the habit of reading
the Amsterdam distributor Pharmacis bought the bogus pills through a Swiss drug-brokerage firm called Rodion
bogus applicants
bogus ballot boxes to be stuffed
Speer allegedly told the bogus hit man of other jobs he wanted done
bogus reporters
counterfeit rings are pumping out thousands of bogus travel documents to people from Thailand, Malaya, Pakistan, the Philippines
managed to divert nearly half a million dollars to a bogus bank account before someone spotted the scheme
The names the wounded men left behind were bogus
simply bogus
her claim to Indian ancestry is simply bogus
It had to be bogus, an exercise cooked up by some know-nothing staffer in Manila
bogus advance-fee loan schemes
a bogus peer review
bogus publishing opportunities
bogus art
the night of the attack by the bogus nurse
heard the bogus news that Saddam had been toppled by his officers
These arguments are bogus
the bogus nature of most " nation-states " is embarrassingly obvious
focusing on bogus issues like, if we go to college we won't get a man
sold bogus oil and gas investments with promises of big profits
what a lot of movies do is to present bogus problems and bogus solutions that make you feel good
Example sentences:
* A heartless cheat who ripped off dozens of young screen hopefuls by charging £45 for bogus film auditions was yesterday jailed for 2.5 years.
* In a string of bogus transactions, paperwork flowed between Bombay, Geneva and London.
* Guppy and Marsh, having lodged their bogus insurance claim, flew back to New York on Concorde.
* Yet he hated to think of Wheeler, who represented everything bogus and hollow, desecrating his beloved church.
* If he was writing a bogus pamphlet, he might as well be a bogus native of Oswaldston to boot.
* The Ern Malley Affair, a slimmer volume, was an examination of a famous Australian literary hoax of the mid-'forties, in which bogus poems of impenetrable obscurity were foisted on a literary magazine.
* Headteachers stressed that some parents would condone their children's absence and provide bogus explanations for it.
* The hon. Lady persists --; I do not think that it is because she does not understand --; in making the bogus comparison between in-patient and out-patient waits now and in 1979.
HHV 10939 Since those reports appeared, it has become clear that that document was not a BR document, but a bogus one, which I understand the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) was involved in passing to the press.
* The bogus statistics of the hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) have been finally revealed.
* Certainly there are many bogus images of the national past around, culminating in the dream world peddled abroad by the British Tourist Board (though this is, alas, what Americans and others want to visit).
* There's no doubt that exaggeration of symptoms can become a powerful factor in pursuing compensation claims, and if bogus claims do create an RSI bandwagon, genuine cases will fail as a result.
* Their faults seem so deeply ingrained, from quantitative measures and bogus statistics to valueless currencies and not caring about the environment.
* Police were today investigating reports of bogus door-to-door charity collections in Londonderry.
* Bogus applicants offend ethnic minorities as much as anyone else.
* Just like Harry Sherman, the night of the attack by the bogus nurse , the thought occurred to him.
* The bogus officers, who were dressed in full police uniform, tied the sixty year old woman up after she let them into her house in Jerviston Street, New Stevenson around eight o'clock last night.
