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Antonyms for bogus

Grammar : Adj
Spell : boh-guhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈboʊ gəs

Definition of bogus

Origin :
  • 1838, "counterfeit money, spurious coin," American English, apparently from a slang word applied (according to some sources first in Ohio in 1827) to a counterfeiter's apparatus.
  • One bogus or machine impressing dies on the coin, with a number of dies, engraving tools, bank bill paper, spurious coin, &c. &c. making in all a large wagon load, was taken into possession by the attorney general of Lower Canada. [Niles' Register, Sept. 7, 1833, quoting from Concord, New Hampshire, "Statesman," Aug. 24]
  • Some trace this to tantrabobus, also tantrabogus, a late 18c. colloquial Vermont word for any odd-looking object, in later 19c. use "the devil," which might be connected to tantarabobs, recorded as a Devonshire name for the devil. Others trace it to the same source as bogey (n.1).
  • adj counterfeit
Example sentences :
  • Save for subsiding bubbles, and the bogus water, there was nothing there.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • In all such cases the heraldry should be true, and not of the "bogus" kind.
  • Extract from : « Wood-Carving » by George Jack
  • She must explain to me how that bogus money came into her possession.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish
  • By some fearful mischance I dropped a real despatch and not the bogus one.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Despatch » by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
  • Wall, I must say I like yer looks a heap better nor I did the bogus one!
  • Extract from : « Dave Porter in the Gold Fields » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • It follows that if anything is base and bogus it is always labeled "American."
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • The fact is, I was prepared for the visit, and had filled the wallet with bogus bills.
  • Extract from : « The Young Adventurer » by Horatio Alger
  • Had the honest tradesman ever sold his grandfather a bogus watch?
  • Extract from : « Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive » by Alf Burnett
  • He showed them the bogus bullet, and explained to them how it was made.
  • Extract from : « Three Boys in the Wild North Land » by Egerton Ryerson Young
  • Do you mean that we are drinking a bogus Veuve-Cliquot over there?
  • Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Synonyms for bogus

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