Bogus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOGUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• A liquor made of rum and molasses.
ADJECTIVE:
• not genuine, counterfeit
• not genuine or true (used in a disapproving manner when deception has been attempted)
• Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
• not genuine
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not genuine; fake

Words related to BOGUS

bogusly13 bogusness12 bogusnesses14

How to use BOGUS in a sentence

• Amongst the bogus news was a two-column speech purporting to have been made by William H.
• If the alarm bell were to ring at night when there was no fire, the school might mistake a genuine alarm of fire for a bogus one, and refuse to hurry themselves.
• He actually prepared bogus contracts and correspondence for the thief to steal.
• Nick thought of these things as he rode down there in the cars, and he prepared himself for an interesting time, chasing bogus ghosts through secret doors and panels.
• Certainly the colonel had fallen again into the clutches of bogus mediums.
• There, as he expected, he found one of those movable panels which the bogus mediums prepare so cleverly.
• But the place was so dark that at first the bogus ghost did not know that Nick was not one of the regular company of spirits.
• My great modesty and my rather distant reverence for the higher clergy might lead me certainly to a strong suspicion that any Bishop who called on me was a bogus Bishop.
• Beware how you admit him into your domestic secrets, for he may be a bogus Earl.
• One of the leaders, Bogus Charley, was an Umpqua Indian and was raised by a white man named Bill Phips.
• Later in the day Bogus Charley, the Umpqua, came into camp and surrendering his gun, stated that he would not return.
• But what do you make of the fact that Sir Charles received a bogus telephone message some ten minutes before my arrival, as a result of which he visited Mr.
• The bogus message remained to be explained, and the assault in the square, as did the purpose of the burglar to whom gold and silver plate made no appeal.
• On the night the bogus African traveller was to lecture in the midland town, Mary Radford was a unit in the very large audience that greeted him.
• He must approach his task in the spirit of a psychical inquirer who seeks to trap a bogus medium.
• To-day the bogus free-State government, we understand, is to assemble at Topeka.
• This was followed by the Border Ruffian invasions, in which Missouri voters elected a bogus territorial legislature, and the bogus legislature enacted a code of bogus laws.
• If the person who officiated were a bogus clergyman, the marriage would hold good if the contracting parties supposed him to be a properly ordained priest.
• The Greek authorities, aware that we knew no Greek, would have been able to interpret bogus messages from us.
• Bogus stock companies appear from time to time in Wall street.
• The owner of the well was enriched, as were his confederates of the bogus company, and the holders of the stock were swindled, many of them being ruined.
• The Dollar stores reap enormous profits from the sale of their bogus jewelry, etc.
• The bogus article must be taken or the money lost, unless the victim calls in the police.
• Moreover, he was blessed with a retentive memory, and he treasured every word of the bogus messages from Iris concocted by her uncle.
• I had other herds on the trail to look after, and it was a month before I found out that the check was bogus, by which time Honest John had sailed for Europe.
• The majority of the anarchists believed he had made a bogus bomb, and had fled to escape their vengeance rather than to evade the justice of the law.
• The whisky you have already taken has given you a bogus courage, and a false view of things.
• When I found out about the bogus corpse I began to see my way.
• Another soldier told her the signatures were bogus.
• There were rumors of bogus titles in the names of dead soldiers and others who had left the country, but could be traced to no authentic source.

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