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adjective

bogus

CEFR C2

fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

In a sentence

Six example sentences with bogus, each labelled with its topic.

  • The site rejected his bogus credentials, since no university had ever issued the degree certificate he uploaded.

    Technology

  • Regulators shut the fund after auditors found bogus invoices for shipments that no warehouse had ever received.

    Finance

  • The gallery pulled the canvas when pigment tests showed the signature was bogus and the varnish only nine years old.

    Art

  • The judge threw out the bogus lawsuit once it emerged the accident had been staged for the insurance payout.

    Law

  • The journal retracted the paper when reviewers found the bogus data had been copied from a graph in another study.

    Science

  • A bogus tour operator took deposits for a cruise that no ship in the harbor had ever heard of.

    Travel

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