How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective
  • It was just a bogus claim.
  • The evidence was completely bogus.
  • This should be a red flag that the tax preparer is bogus.
    Dallas News, 18 July 2021
  • The scammers will then try to sell people bogus products.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The attack is believed to have been perpetrated by a foreign country and involved flooding the website with bogus traffic in order to crash it.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The call almost always is bogus and will lead to elaborate steps to separate you from your money either by purchasing gift cards or making a wire transfer.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Promoting bogus investment opportunities in cryptocurrencies as well as in the gas or oil sector.
    Alex Vakulov, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Perry contends that Trump was given bogus information by the leader of the conservative group called the Club for Growth.
    Dallas News, 21 July 2021
  • Since early this year, the agency has sought to screen its system for ID thieves who have stolen account information and filed bogus claims for weekly government benefits.
    David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 26 July 2021
  • Karikó shared with me an email that Malone sent her in June, accusing her of feeding reporters bogus information and inflating her own accomplishments.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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

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