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Bogey


Definition:

  • (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (2) He hit cleanly and straight down the 14th fairway to restore equilibrium, as news filtered through that back-to-back bogeys by Scott had left Mickelson alone at the front.
  • (3) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
  • (4) His fourth bogey dragged him back to par with five holes left, his Sunday lead now used up, although he was still in the frame, two shots ahead of Woods, one behind the leaders, Scott and Mickelson.
  • (5) He focuses his rhetoric on the invisible bogey figure in the room, a Democratic politician who happens not to be his actual rival in the contest – the incumbent senator, Kay Hagan – but a more distant figure looming over the race.
  • (6) Gareth Bale: we know Belgium, we might even be their bogey team Read more Saluting Bale’s rise from a “young boy in Cardiff working hard on a dream” to becoming a cannon that “rips the world apart”, it urges the Wales forward to “unleash the dragon, let out the fire inside!” The track was written by Emmet Crowley, a British music lecturer at the Alfonso X el Sabio university in Madrid, and his Costa Rican wife, who has also composed a song about the Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas.
  • (7) When looked at from this perspective, the fight against forced labour ceases to be a simple battle against abstract economic forces or the bogey-men criminals able to make the most of them.
  • (8) This spectre is the bogey conjured by Mubarak himself.
  • (9) They have found Everton the nearest thing to a bogey club in recent years and Darron Gibson's second‑half winner, his first goal since signing from Manchester United last month , means they have won only two of their last 15 league games at Goodison.
  • (10) With Villa not seriously threatening any improvement to a woeful return of six goals in their last 20 Premier League road trips, Hull killed off the game for a rare win against their biggest bogey team.
  • (11) Watson then recorded his fourth birdie in six holes on the 13th to close within a shot and Furyk did likewise with a birdie on the 11th, only to promptly bogey the next after chipping from one side of the green off the other.
  • (12) "I knew I needed to make birdies and not make bogeys.
  • (13) Dzeko scored either side of half-time and, however scruffy it became, nobody should really be surprised when there was so much riding on the game and Everton have long been considered City's bogey club.
  • (14) On the GOP side, candidates are pushed by an equal and opposite incentive to continue attacking the media, which has long been a favorite bogey figure for hardline American conservatives.
  • (15) Research communications is about engagement not dissemination and this is often where the bogey man, marketing comes into it.
  • (16) In truth, her real bogey-figures were two earlier planning theorists, Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier.
  • (17) Westwood experienced all the vagaries on the front nine, having to sink three bogey putts to stay in the picture and grabbing a birdie at the 5th after going into the right-hand side bunker.
  • (18) Sporting Kansas City vs Real Salt Lake Saturday 4pm ET, Sporting Park ( ESPN, UniMas, TSN2, RDS) Mike Kuhn , Editor, Down the Byline , Sporting Kansas City: Sporting KC is finally back to an MLS Cup final, after finally getting over their bogey team in Houston, Sporting face off against Real Salt Lake Saturday at Sporting Park.
  • (19) Nose Doctor: who knew kids would be attracted by bogey-related apps?
  • (20) The German's unlikely challenge, though, was to falter around the turn and formally end with a double bogey on the par three 12th.

Bogus


Definition:

  • (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
  • (n.) A liquor made of rum and molasses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
  • (2) Specifically, 24 high-self-disclosing subjects and 24 low-self-disclosing subjects were presented with four bogus inventories manipulated on the variables of agreement in content and amount of disclosure.
  • (3) Some couriers, too, are fighting back, staging public protests and preparing legal challenges in employment tribunals over whether their self-employed status – which denies them the right to the minimum wage and holiday pay – is, in fact, bogus.
  • (4) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
  • (5) Subjects were asked to indicate their attitudes toward various nations after having received various bogus information about how they responded physiologically to the stimuli.
  • (6) The rush to make a new offer on devolution, promised within hours of publication of the shock poll result on Sunday, triggered accusations of panic and bogus bribes.
  • (7) For example, a bogus branded customer care account may direct fans to a bogus web site to reset their password as part of a system upgrade.
  • (8) Angela Merkel stands firm on finding resolution to Greece crisis Read more But this is bogus.
  • (9) Instead of investing client's money in secrities, it was held with a bank and new deposits used to pay bogus returns to give the impression that the business was successful.
  • (10) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
  • (11) The argument that it is might be comfortable and familiar, but it is bogus and ill-informed.
  • (12) ‘Patriotism’ is a difficult concept to pin, and one man’s patriotism can easily be misjudged as folly or even treachery if we start judging based on a narrow understanding of the term.” Walid, a Muslim veteran of the navy, added that “even though we invaded Iraq based upon bogus information, that doesn’t diminish the sacrifice of Captain Khan and other American service members who lost their lives”.
  • (13) And there's the fact that Romney's whole "binder full of women" anecdote was completely bogus: he commissioned no such binder; it was provided to him by a bipartisan coalition of women's groups, which had created it prior to his election.
  • (14) "The whole charge is transparently bogus and meant for the media to reduce turnout to the march on Sunday."
  • (15) I would never be party to issuing any bogus invoices, full stop,” Shorten said in response to questions about $300,000 in payments from Thiess John Holland to the AWU’s Victorian branch and national office between 2005 and 2008.
  • (16) Reports of decomposing bodies littering the streets of Damasak came as the president elect, Muhammadu Buhari, denounced the Islamists as a bogus religious group and vowed a hard line against them when he comes to power at the end of next month.
  • (17) Pregnant women (N = 220) attending urban maternity care clinics were randomly assigned to study groups to determine the effectiveness of a "bogus pipeline" method to increase the accuracy of behavioral self-reports of alcohol consumption.
  • (18) Massimo Cellino’s reign as Leeds United owner is under serious threat after an Italian judge ruled he set up a “bogus corporate screen” as part of a “Machiavellian simulation” deliberately to evade paying import tax on a yacht in 2012, meaning the Football League could bar the Italian from controlling the club.
  • (19) Allies of President Barack Obama on Sunday sharply criticised the latest Republican inquiry into his response to the deadly 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, describing it as a “bogus” scheme to score political points that was fuelled by conservative media.
  • (20) So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong, but gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.” Obama is scheduled to return from his vacation temporarily next Sunday.