How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective
  • It was just a bogus claim.
  • The evidence was completely bogus.
  • That could be a trick to prompt you to give to a bogus site.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The Supreme Court kicked him to the curb on his bogus Trump things.
    — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • And even the ‘stages of grief’ are [bogus]: Anger, denial, blah blah blah.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Simon served 317 days in jail on the bogus gun charges.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2022
  • But the focus of the bogus blog's analysis raised red flags at the time.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • This should be a red flag that the tax preparer is bogus.
    — Dallas News, 18 July 2021
  • What kind of clowns would send out something as bogus...
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Bitcoin’s price rose by more than $1,000 after the bogus tweet.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 Oct. 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
  • His book about the costs of bogus science will be published in August by Lyons Press.
    — George Melloan, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • That September 13th date seems to be bogus at this point.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The singer’s team called the suit a bogus and absurd publicity stunt.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024
  • This can result in what may appear to be a bogus message.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The reports of state capitals breached in other places turned out to be bogus.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Ben Fox, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Her lawyer has told ABC News that those charges are totally bogus.
    — Josh Margolin, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • That is to say, Facebook worries that the mere act of trying to debunk a bogus claim may only help to make the lie grow stronger.
    — Ethan Porter, Wired, 14 May 2020
  • The scammers will then try to sell people bogus products.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • For obvious copyright reasons, that version has been virtually scrubbed from the internet, which feels bogus because chopping up any- and everything is tradition in bounce, but that’s just part of the challenge the genre faces in the streaming era.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 2 May 2025

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