How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective

• It was just a bogus claim.
• The evidence was completely bogus.
• That could be a trick to prompt you to give to a bogus site.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• The Supreme Court kicked him to the curb on his bogus Trump things.
  — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
• In the days since, more bogus calls and threats have rolled in across the country.
  — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• After all, this wouldn’t be the first time the app duped us with a bogus hack.
  — Marisa Petrarca, Allure, 3 July 2023
• Simon served 317 days in jail on the bogus gun charges.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2022
• But the focus of the bogus blog's analysis raised red flags at the time.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• Less than a month later, the blockchain world would blow up at the hands of a bogus crypto king in the Bahamas.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
• Her bank called to notify her that the check was bogus.
  — Lauren Krouse, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
• This should be a red flag that the tax preparer is bogus.
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2021
• And do not click on any unknown links that can be bogus ones mirroring the look and feel of the real Airbnb.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• But after the victims wire that money, their banks alert them that the check from the scammers was bogus.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• Avianca pointed out the bogus case law in a March filing.
  — Larry Neumeister, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• Lawyers for the families call the debts bogus and are challenging them in court.
  — Tovia Smith, NPR, 14 June 2024
• Bitcoin’s price rose by more than $1,000 after the bogus tweet.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
• With that, the court threw a big wrench into all the plans to drag Trump from one bogus trial to another.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• The comparison, of course, is bogus—no one would say that these Kings are better than the ’95 Bulls.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• That September 13th date seems to be bogus at this point.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Sep. 2021
• The singer’s team called the suit a bogus and absurd publicity stunt.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
• The reports of state capitals breached in other places turned out to be bogus.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Ben Fox, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2021
• The scammers will then try to sell people bogus products.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2021
• The charge, which the father says was bogus, made his son an outcast who no longer had gang protection.
  — Danny Robbins, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
• Therefore, Feuerstein spent a lot of filming time with his face in a mountain of bogus blow.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 June 2024
• In 2019, he was forced to refute claims that his doctorate was bogus.
  — Jerry Harmer, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• Some sites have put guardrails on user reviews to reduce the chances of bogus ratings.
  — Kristen Hawley, Bon Appétit, 26 July 2022
• The broad and bogus claims to authenticity are also making a point of who the movie is for.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
• Many of these suits are bogus, with the defendant not owing the amount claimed in the suit and sometimes not owing anything at all.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• That claim has been dismissed by Western leaders as a bogus justification for launching its war.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
• Others are encouraging non-government employees to spam the OPM email with bogus lists.
  — Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 23 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Mar 2025