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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: obsolete argot bogus counterfeit money Date: 1825 not genuine ; counterfeit, sham • bogusly adverb • bogusness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. sham, fictitious, spurious. Derivatives: bogusly adv. bogusness n. Etymology: 19th-c. US word: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bogus Bo"gus, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bogus Bo"gus, n. A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine. ...their bogus insurance claim... He said these figures were bogus and totally inaccurate. = phoney ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, fraudulent, garbled, illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped