Definitions
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Word origin
First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers.
Used in a sentence
“He was arrested for trying to cash a bogus check at the bank.”
“They have printed bogus despatches, and unhesitatingly used what they knew was bogus matter in a way to mislead even newspaper men.”
“The organization of “bogus companies,” started purely for the purpose of eliminating competitors, seems to have been a not infrequent practice.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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