Crossword-Solution: BOGUS 5 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Bogus a. Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally
applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
Bogus n. A liquor made of rum and molasses.

We have 66 clues for the answer “BOGUS”

Clue Answers
Like a crank call 1 answer
Like a Slug kin 1 answer
Like $3 bills 1 answer
Like "funny money" 1 answer
Clinton says Gore should not suffer for his "___" scandals 1 answer
"That's lame, dude" 1 answer
"Not true, dude!" 1 answer
Like snake oil 1 answer
Not genuine or true 1 answer
Like the Piltdown Man 1 answer
Not legitimate 2 answers
Spurious: Colloq. 2 answers
Like a slug 2 answers
Phony-baloney 3 answers
Like a $3 bill 3 answers
Not legit 4 answers
Full of baloney 4 answers
Like a three-dollar bill 4 answers
brummagem 8 answers
Made-up 9 answers
Pseudo 10 answers
Archangel Apocryphal 10 answers
slightly derogatory 14 answers
Insinuating 16 answers
Not genuine 18 answers
Phony 19 answers
NOT real 19 answers
snide 21 answers
Ersatz 23 answers
specious 28 answers
Fallacious 34 answers
Slander 41 answers
Sneer? 41 answers
Unauthentic 43 answers
Mockery 45 answers
fraudulent 45 answers
Sarcasm 50 answers
spurious 51 answers
Baseless 53 answers
erroneous 53 answers
phoney 54 answers
Unfounded 55 answers
Counter-feit 55 answers
Fictitious 56 answers
Libellous 56 answers
quackery 64 answers
ARTIFICIAL ___ 65 answers
Incorrect 66 answers
slanderous 66 answers
scornful 69 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BOGUS (5)

Said of a program that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
This is an attempt to prevent bogus routes to a network from being propagated because of gossip or counting to infinity.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992
And when you tell him the handbill and the reward’s bogus, maybe he’ll believe you when you explain to him what the idea was for getting ’em out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Many years before this bogus abbey, with its congregation of irreverent jesters, was founded, there stood upon this same spot a monastery of a sterner kind, whose monks were of a somewhat different type to the revellers that were to follow them, five hundred years afterwards.
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome 1995
The varieties of this garment that one sees in the shop windows, exposing virgin bosoms to the day, are not what they seem! Those very bosoms are fakes, and cannot open, being instead pierced by eyelets, into which bogus studs are fixed by machinery.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008

Quotes with BOGUS (3)

you get to a point when you just don’t want to be pushed anymore. pushed to pretend you’re okay with condescending behavior and disrespectful attitudes. pushed to ignore the determined yearnings of your clearest truth. pushed to engage in conversations and situations that in no way serve your state of peace. pushed to act a bogus part and clap for those who are acting theirs. pushed to be quiet and to stay small. pushed to exist rather than live. you get to a point when it’s …
Scott Stabile
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive…
Richard Rohr Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They had groovy titles like The Word or The Way, and translated the Bible into “contemporary English,” which meant Saul yelling at Jonathan, “You son of a bitch!” (I Samuel 20:30). Awesome! The King James version gave this verse as “Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman,” which was bogus in comparison. Maybe these translations went a bit far. I recall one o…
Rob Sheffield Love Is a Mix Tape
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 55 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).