How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective

• It was just a bogus claim.
• The evidence was completely bogus.
• Or produce a bogus excuse for why a deadline was missed?
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• Scammers are giving you the opportunity to make some money through bogus work.
  — Robin Ryan, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• One session after another discussed bogus claims about the health dangers of mask wearing and vaccines.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
• Instead of funding the bogus project, Ruffo and his co-conspirator played the stock market.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Alabama vaccine passport ban is so bogus, its authors forgot to include penalties for anyone who breaks it.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 17 Oct. 2021
• Such creative writing exercises have come under attack as bogus efforts by buyers to gain the upper hand over other buyers.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2021
• White said the Senate is raising bogus concerns in a way that will shift focus from the fact that the audit found Trump lost the election by numbers that closely matched the county’s.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• That could be a trick to prompt you to give to a bogus site.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Delta case is just one of the latest cases of a company being sued for bogus climate brags.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• The posts have over time spread bogus information about high-profile tragedies to the delight of many of those sharing the joke.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Maria Hadden, 49th, adding her name was listed on the bogus notices.
  — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Many of the bogus claims propelled by the billionaire in recent days were also buoyed by other major right-wing voices.
  — Liam Reilly, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
• Call the sender to confirm Some scammers are physically pasting bogus codes over legitimate ones.
  — Alex Perry, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024