102 examples of bogus in sentences

The bona fide settlers in Kansas who were opposed to slavery then assembled at Topeka, refused to recognize the bogus laws, and framed a constitution which President Pierce"a Northern man with Southern principles," gentlemanly and cultivated, but not strongpronounced to be revolutionary.

untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide [Slang], pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. artificial, synthetic, ersatz

He actually prepared bogus contracts and correspondence for the thief to steal.

It was not enough for him to cheat at cards, to float bubble companies, bogus lotteries.

But Lambert was not made of the material generally used in the construction of great men, and, though he secured quite an army, and the aid of the Earl of Lincoln and many veteran troops, the first battle closed the comedy, and the bogus sovereign, too contemptible even to occupy the valuable time of the hangman, became a scullion in the royal kitchen, while Simon was imprisoned.

Every manso it seemswho passed the Long Bridge was stripped of his last dollar of Amor Patriae, and came to Washington, or went home, with a waistcoat-pocket full of bogus in change.

Has he not found all the silver change in his pocket grow black, suggesting very unpleasant suspicions of bogus coin?

If anything should happen" "They'd tackle the bogus camp!"

" Chapter XIII The beach-combers of PapeeteThe consuls tell their troublesA bogus lordThe American boot-blacksThe cowboy in the hospitalOrmsby, the supercargoThe death of TahiaThe Christchurch KidThe Nature menIvan Stroganoff's desire for a new gland.

One of the leaders, Bogus Charley, was an Umpqua Indian and was raised by a white man named Bill Phips.

Bogus accompanying him.

Bancroft of the artillery, and with Bogus Chancy as guide.

He was a bogus earl, an adventurer, wasn't he? Yardsley.

She little thinks that I have just returned from Australia, where I have at last discovered the identity of the real Earl of Puddingford, as well as that of this bogus Muddleton, who, by his nefarious crime, has deprived Henry Cobb of his patrimony, of his title, aye, even of his name.

The lad, being on his guard, might get rid of her attentions by playing a trick on her, making a bogus appointment with her in the bush, and then informing the elder men, who would appear in his place at the trysting-place, to the girl's mortification.

I tell you, those bogus mediums thought they'd struck something very soft.

Nick thought of these things as he rode down there in the cars, and he prepared himself for an interesting time, chasing bogus ghosts through secret doors and panels.

It may be that some bogus medium who used to get the colonel's good money away from him, wants more of it, and is taking this means of driving my uncle back to the fold of true believers.

Certainly the colonel had fallen again into the clutches of bogus mediums.

There, as he expected, he found one of those movable panels which the bogus mediums prepare so cleverly.

But the place was so dark that at first the bogus ghost did not know that Nick was not one of the regular company of spirits.

When evening at length drew near, drums and flutes were sounded, the flowered palankeen entered the courtyard, and the hoodwinked go-between, admiring the beauty of the bogus bride, herself opened the scarlet curtains.

He sold the French securities in Egypt in '90; and he's the man who put the bogus Argentine bonds on our marketyou'll find the case in the 115th Federal Reporter.

Arcane's boy Charley still suffered from his bogus measles or whatever else his disorder might be, and Bennett's little Martha grew more quiet and improved considerably in health, though still unable to walk, and still abdominally corpulent.

Bogus for Counterfeit, or False.

102 examples of  bogus  in sentences