How do you use the word "bogus" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bogus": This is completely bogus. Sami opened a bank account with a bogus Egyptian ID.

Bogus Meaning

/ˈbəʊ̯ɡəs/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjCounterfeit or fake; not genuine.

adjUndesirable or harmful.

Sentence Examples

This is completely bogus.

Sami opened a bank account with a bogus Egyptian ID.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fake phony imitative

Antonyms:

genuine

CEFR Practice Quiz

The detective quickly exposed the document as ____ after noticing forged signatures.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The police found that the man was using a ____ identity to hide city.

Word Origin & History

First attested as an underworld term for an apparatus for creating counterfeit coins, then the coins themselves. Later, the word was applied to anything of poor quality. The newest use to mean useless is probably from the slang of computer hackers. The origin is unknown, but there are at least two theories that try to trace its origin: * From Hausa boko (“to fake”). Since bogus first appeared in the United States, it may be possible that its ancestor was brought there on a slave ship. * From criminal slang as a short form of tantrabogus, a 19th-century slang term for a menacing object, making some believe that bogus might be linked to bogy or bogey (see bogeyman). In this sense, Bogus might be related to Bogle – a traditional trickster from the Scottish Borders, noted for achieving acts of household trickery; confusing, but not usually damaging.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] that he and David Whitmer swore falsley, stole, cheated, lied, sold bogus money, (base coin,), and also stones and sand for bogus; that letters in the post-office had been opened, read, and destroyed; and that those same men were concerned with a gang of counterfeiters, coiners, and blacklegs." — 1842, Daniel Parish Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons: A Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Sect Self-styled Latter-Day Saints, Carlton & Lanahan:

"They have printed bogus despatches, and unhesitatingly used what they knew was bogus matter in a way to mislead even newspaper men." — 1895, Alphonso Alva Hopkins, Wealth and Waste: The Principles of Political Economy in Their Application to the Present Problems of Labor, Law, and the Liquor Traffic, Funk & Wagnalls Company:

"The organization of “bogus companies,” started purely for the purpose of eliminating competitors, seems to have been a not infrequent practice." — 1921, Burton J. Hendrick, The Age of Big Business:

"This was the first time that James had met with one of the bogus etymologists common at that period, who believed that the derivation of a word could be solved by finding any foreign word that sounded something like it." — 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 53:

"What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it?" — 1982, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, spoken by Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn):

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