phoneyinformaldisapproving

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

made by humans
artificialHer bouquet was made of artificial flowers.
syntheticThe tyres are made with synthetic rubber.
man-madeNylon is a man-made fibre.
fakeHe was selling fake fur jackets.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Natural and artificial
anti-natural
artificial
artificiality
artificially
biodynamic
false
freshness
God-given
imitation
inauthentic
pure
rawness
refined
simulated
synthetic
unnatural
unnaturally
unposed
unprocessed
untamed

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True, real, false, and unreal

bogus | American Dictionary

bogus
adjective
us/ˈboʊ·ɡəs/
(of something) not what it appears or claims to be; false but made to look real:
He was arrested and charged with carrying a bogus passport.

bogus | Business English

bogus
adjective
uk /ˈbəʊɡəs/us
not real, or existing only in order to deceive people:
People were tricked into entering personal information on to a bogus website.
a bogus address/bank account

Examples of bogus

bogus
Analogies, like statistics, can be used in the bogus proof of anything.
In short, it is probable that these petitions were more than simply the bogus products of powerful notable schemes.
Issues surrounding cost and identifying bogus claims - a common phenomenon in a no-fault environment - are highly troublesome.
The more bogus efforts were better seen as pretexts of civilization.
This is not to excuse bogus originality designed to embellish plain fact.
In fact many directors, instinctively appreciating their bogus status, have them 'played' by some of the party guests letting their hair down.
The evaluation of conj (bogus, bogus) will raise a run-time exception.
Both mainstream and bogus science are contested across all four categories.
It would have been difficult to have inserted fresh entries in these, and it seems unlikely that the original entries were bogus.
Some of these associations are known to be bogus.
The governor's forces again broke into the hall, this time electing a set of bogus officers.
As for what belongs to us, it is as though we had no authentic music of our own, only artificial simulations or bogus approximations.
Such a check seems quite appropriate, given that all too often we have found welfare-independent justifications to be bogus.
Love to record in bogus sound system.
But the question is bogus.
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