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1
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
- for that price, you're only going to get furniture covered in bogus leather and not the real stuff
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2
being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud
- the "designer" watches sold on the street are usually bogus
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- counterfeit,
- fake,
- false,
- forged,
- inauthentic,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- queer,
- sham,
- snide,
- spurious,
- unauthentic
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3
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
- there was often a lot of bogus conviviality at the company's parties
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- automatic,
- canned,
- concocted,
- fabricated,
- hokey,
- labored,
- manufactured,
- pat,
- unauthentic,
- unreal,
- unrealistic
- double-dealing,
- empty,
- facile,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- mealy,
- mealymouthed,
- two-faced,
- unctuous
- exaggerated,
- histrionic,
- melodramatic,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- theatrical
- (also theatric)
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The first known use of bogus was in 1825
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