(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.
Rum
Definition:
(n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
(a.) Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
(n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now she also dabbles in playwriting and rap, and is in the band Sound of Rum .
(2) I DJed the Rum Runner every Tuesday, but it was really interesting every night.
(3) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(4) It’s been a very rum version of an open and transparent process.
(5) After all who wants democracy when you could have the perfect rum baba?
(6) In Brittany we like to add rum to everything – people in the navy used to bring it back from the French Caribbean – but it's optional here.
(7) Bow-tied waitresses in miniskirts deliver high-ball rums to men in suits while heavily-painted women sip champagne from their positions on the sidelines.
(8) Islands such as San Salvador, Cat Island and Rum Cay were expected to experience the most significant effects later in the day and Friday as the storm begins an expected shift toward the north, forecasters said.
(9) Photograph: Jon Tonks for the Guardian Councillors approved Hay-Smith's plans, and knocked back Tesco's, in March 2010 – but then things took another rum turn.
(10) This was followed by visits to Cuba by John Kerry , the US secretary of state, and later by Obama himself , then the resumption of commercial flights and the lifting of restrictions on Cuban rum and cigars .
(11) It seemed to me that it's pretty basic that when women make up half the population it seems a bit rum to have only just over a quarter of them in the top 10% of earnings.
(12) The Rum Diary is a ramshackle jalopy of a movie, a bumpy ride that yields amusements and diversions here and there, and several interesting or loopy performances – including Aaron Eckhart as a slick resort developer Depp takes a dislike to, and Giovanni Ribisi as some breed of alcoholic Nazi-idolator.
(13) Among the individual flavors sweetened with 0.025% sodium saccharin, rum, strawberry and raspberry proved to be the most acceptable.
(14) Contact the marketing departments for gin, vodka, whiskey and rum brands, and offer them publicity via your social media, or a couple of places at your supper club in exchange for some free stock to serve a welcome drink for your guests.
(15) The Ivory Coast may like to be known as Côte d'Ivoire but they're having a rum old time trying to convince anyone to actually do so – in Spain they call it the Costa de Marfil , in Germany they prefer Elfenbeinküste , in Italy it's Costa d'Avorio , in Norway it's Elfenbenskysten and in Hungary it's Elefántcsontpart .
(16) Withdrawal from alcohol (ethanol, ethyl alcohol) or other general sedatives leads to progressive hyperactivity that progresses from tremulousness, sleep disturbance, and hallucinosis, to the more serious rum fits and delirium tremens (DTs).
(17) Among them: “I can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums.
(18) We end our conversation with his party's rum assortment of allies in the European parliament , and another chance to rummage through more arcane rightwing parties that do their thing in Brussels: among them, Helsinki's own True Finns, and the United Poland party.
(19) There are other can't-miss-cocktails, with mezcal, whiskey, and rum bases, if tequila is not your poison.
(20) The vector, Culex quinquefasciatus (Say), breeds mostly in and around numerous rum distilleries, located exclusively around the periphery of the city, and this undoubtedly accounts for the higher prevalence and intensity of infection among suburban dwellers.