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bogus

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bo⋅gus

  [boh-guhs]
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–adjective
1. not genuine; counterfeit; spurious; sham.
–noun
2. Printing, Journalism. matter set, by union requirement, by a compositor and later discarded, duplicating the text of an advertisement for which a plate has been supplied or type set by another publisher.
Origin:
1825–30, Americanism; orig. an apparatus for coining false money; perh. akin to bogy 1

Synonyms:
1. fraudulent, pseudo, fake, phony.
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bo·gus   (bō'gəs)   
adj.  Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks.

[From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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