boguses

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bo⋅gus

[boh-guh

–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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