bogus
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Definitions & Usage
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
(slang) Undesirable or harmful.
(computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
(philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
(US, dialect) A liquor made of rum and molasses.
(US, dialect, archaic) Counterfeit money.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“[…] that he and David Whitmer swore falsley, stole, cheated, lied, sold bogus money, (base coin,), and also stones and sand for bogus; that letters in the post-office had been opened, read, and destroyed; and that those same men were concerned with a gang of counterfeiters, coiners, and blacklegs.”
— 1842, Daniel Parish Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons: A Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Sect Self-styled Latter-Day Saints, Carlton & Lanahan:
“They have printed bogus despatches, and unhesitatingly used what they knew was bogus matter in a way to mislead even newspaper men.”
— 1895, Alphonso Alva Hopkins, Wealth and Waste: The Principles of Political Economy in Their Application to the Present Problems of Labor, Law, and the Liquor Traffic, Funk & Wagnalls Company:
“The organization of “bogus companies,” started purely for the purpose of eliminating competitors, seems to have been a not infrequent practice.”
— 1921, Burton J. Hendrick, The Age of Big Business: