(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.
Fictious
Definition:
(a.) Fictitious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study is a partial replication study of a community with the fictious name of Regionville which was first studied by E. L. Koos in the period 1946-50.
(2) Therefore the child is treated as a fictious adult.
(3) The activity of neurons in the rostral part of the fastigial nucleus was recorded during fictious scratch reflex (FSR) in immobilized cats.
(4) Impulse activity of lumbar interneurons was recorded extracellularly during fictious locomotion of thalamic cats.
(5) The cord dorsum and dorsal root potentials were recorded during fictious scratching in L6 segment of the thalamic cats.
(6) A letter of inquiry from a fictious dentist, requesting applications and information regarding training in dental public health, was sent to each of the 19 accredited Schools of Public Health.
(7) The increase of space between the pubic bones described in these syndromes is fictious, as it really signifies the existence of non-ossified cartilage.