bogus
adjective
not genuine; counterfeit; spurious; sham.
bogusly
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a word derived from
bogus.
Example Sentences
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Houses that I imagine will be in what Jonathan Meades described in another programme the other night as a "simpering, winsome, pseudo-vernacular, neo-traditional, bogusly folkloric style of architecture".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2013
His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand.
From Time Magazine Archive
I cleaned the house, got ahead on my homework, and wrote my mom more bogusly cheerful e-mail.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
