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bogus

adjective
🔊/ˈbəʊɡəs/
🔊/ˈbəʊɡəs/
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  1. pretending to be real or true 假的；伪造的synonym false
    • a bogus doctor/contract冒牌医生；伪造的合同
    • Bogus claims of injury by workers are costing companies thousands of pounds.工人虚报受伤情况索赔使一些公司损失成千上万英镑。
    Extra Examples
    • 75 paintings which art experts dismiss as bogus75 幅被艺术专家认为是赝品的画作
    • The dinosaur bones turned out to be bogus.这些恐龙骨胳结果是伪造的。
    • The bogus doctor had been working from premises in Chelsea.那个冒牌医生一直在切尔西的事务所工作。
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • dismiss something as
    • …
    adverb
    • completely
    • entirely
    • totally
    • …
    phrases
    • turn out to
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    Word Originlate 18th cent. (originally US, denoting a machine for making counterfeit money): of unknown origin.