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Sentence Examples One problem is that there is apparently no penalty for filing a bogus patent. Thousands of cab drivers are set to strike in protest at new safety rules designed to end the menace of bogus minicabs. John Sweeney, in a TV documentary to be shown tonight, says the figures are bogus. We filter all the e-mails in the evening to verify whether any bogus votes are cast. Then Dawn became the victim of a bogus police officer who used a false warrant card to gain access to her home and quiz her for hours. A pensioner has been conned into handing over his life savings to bogus workmen. Genuine refugees should then be welcomed and supported while the bogus are sent back. Much of the book sounds like a bogus impersonation, a belletrist's version of Boris Karloff. She used four fictitious names on bogus loan applications to her company and pocketed the proceeds. A Downpatrick man was targeted by a bogus caller claiming to want to use his phone. The government has already begun a crackdown on bogus foreign language courses and sham marriages. Conmen are attempting to make people cough up bogus traffic fines after they return from trips abroad. And we exposed him as being prepared to offer help to an apparent bogus asylum seeker. He had denied using a false diary and concocting a bogus story in his defence of the Daily Star's claims. A bogus bailiff is conning youngsters out of their hard earned pocket money, it was claimed today. Chances are the story will be bogus or, even if genuine, the publicity process will render the hero decidedly unheroic. Safety chiefs are warning businesses about a scam in which bosses are charged hundreds of pounds from a bogus health and safety organisation. He said typical bogus callers were aged 25 to 40, could be male or female, wore a uniform, overalls, a yellow reflective jacket or smart clothes. He spent his early 20s peddling dope and stolen cars, and making bogus stock trades. This story is bogus, and part of an urban myth that has been spreading around for quite a while now. Show More Sentences An initiative to stop bogus callers preying on elderly victims has been launched in Basildon today. Hampshire police are launching a new campaign to cut down on the number of victims who fall prey to conmen and bogus callers. The papers also reported his claim to have had a bogus cocaine habit put around by a government press secretary. That's the message from Surrey police after bogus callers stole hundreds of pounds from vulnerable victims in one day. Police in Southend are warning residents to beware of bogus callers who visit the area as summer approaches. The group believes the banks should take responsibility for advising the setting up bogus accounts and offshore trusts. Other measures include a new team to tackle bogus official burglaries and an increase in hate crime reporting centres. At least I tried to stop the practice of bogus non-resident accounts but I was dismissed as a maverick or some would say a stirrer. That bogus claim has now been refuted by both the snopes urban legend page and by my op-ed articles. She was left stranded in Tadcaster town centre as the bogus caller drove off in his van, which had two ladders fixed to the roof. Police have issued a warning after the bogus trio struck twice in Colchester yesterday. The awesome stupidity of the common herd endures and multiplies, in part, because of the bogus trend stories that daily newspapers feed it. There are certainly a lot of bogus psychics who tarnish the reputation of genuine psychic channellers like me. The U.S. Navy intercepts migrant ships on the high seas and sends bogus refugees home. They are verifying records and seeking to ensure that any rumored bogus claims and overcharges are caught. We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation. Those with genuine grievances are given the run-around while bogus claimers cost us all more in the end. A 72-year-old woman in Chiswick answered the door to a bogus water board official with bogus identification. The two bogus window fitters persuaded the woman that she needed a new fascia board on her window. Shipman had falsified his records to create bogus medical histories to explain away the sudden deaths of his victims. Show More Sentences The oozy goo of reproduction and decay impinges darkly on the tidy geometrical regularity of a bogus suburban milieu. An investigation by the Manchester Evening News revealed the huge number of bogus taxi drivers picking up fares in the city centre. Organized gangs located potential victims by combing through the White Pages, and they paid for the postage with bogus stamps. The bogus accounts were unearthed after the comptroller revisited the sampling audits of suspect non-resident accounts undertaken by the Revenue. He could not remember the colour of the van parked in front of the bogus police car. Watching it, I found myself quietly appalled by the smugness, condescension and bogus rhetoric on display. This is the introducing of corrupt or bogus files into file-sharing services. The idea that accent determines intellect is totally bogus, and mistakes intelligibility for intelligence. The demand for action against bogus language schools has been under consideration within the Home Office for a number of months. To do it on bogus information, to use this kind of secrecy to do it is intolerable. His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media. He is also under investigation for opening up bogus shell companies to help his clients hide money. He controlled a string of firms, which sent thousands of bogus invoices to hospitals for the services of locum doctors. The immigration service failed to spot the hijackers' bogus passports, questionable cover stories and false statements. Sergeants were crisscrossing southern California, tracking down witnesses to interview for clearly bogus complaints. Police in Wickford are urging residents to be on their guard after an elderly woman was duped into handing over money to bogus callers. All 13 of Waterford's tax defaulters were penalised for non-payment of income tax and for being the holders of bogus non-resident bank accounts. Most were offered jobs in the city or tricked into bogus marriages by procurers promising them a new life in India. All these channels simply had no creative staff left to produce bogus news. The mayor warned people to beware of bogus charities purporting to be collecting money for victims' families. Show More Sentences The vast majority of asylum seekers are bogus, in that they are not really fleeing oppression but are merely economic migrants. Others have dug up dirt on management, sometimes pointing to tax evasion or bogus financial statements. Police today praised two elderly residents at a sheltered housing complex who sent bogus callers packing empty-handed. But there are also bogus philosophers who aim only at money and status, and bring her into discredit, and they drive her crazy. Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment. Medication has always seemed like some sort of bogus escape hatch, a way around dealing with reality and the issues at hand. His claim to be a representative of the downtrodden masses is, of course, completely bogus. The consequences of drugs prescribed by practitioners with bogus qualifications and only the haziest understanding of medicine can be horrific. Trading standards watchdogs are warning businesses to be on their guard against a bogus bills scam. Investigations are now centring on how the bogus caller managed to obtain the waybill number. Why are our courts backing the bogus racialist theories of such an evil individual? In this way, the entire Scottish nation adopted the bogus Highland symbols of kilt and tartan. Claims of working for the fictitious water board allowed bogus callers to steal from the home of an elderly Chelmsford resident. In 1993 Federico Zeri, the Italian art historian, resigned as a Getty trustee after it bought a Greek kouros he believed was bogus. These bogus alerts directed users to a maliciously constructed Web site run by Papierniak, instead of the genuine PayPal site. Stiff penalties are to be introduced for people who make bogus insurance claims. A bogus caller was stopped in his tracks by a brave elderly woman who refused to let him in. A further concern, bogus or remediable or both, is that open availability of the reports might subject CRS to liability issues. The police ambushed the dealer in a bogus arrest, stripped him of cash and drugs then sent him on his way. People can get hurt, friends can become enemies and reps can be tarnished by bogus gossip. Show More Sentences In his incapacitated state the bogus lawman fell gratefully back onto the grass. This reservoir of anonymous accounts and bogus banks is accessed by institutions for both genuine and illicit purposes. Individual researchers have tried to speak out against bogus anti-ageing treatments and practitioners, but this can be a tricky business. Most bogus non-resident account holders died with undeclared assets and tax liabilities. Police in Sheffield are ringing the changes in a bid to crack mobile phone crime in the light of an alarming rise in bogus complaints. Even the local police put in an appearance, arriving to investigate a bogus complaint about the noise. In the United States, thousands of people are ripped off by con artists selling bogus investments. Back in the saddle again, we go, folks, with all placid on the Y2K front, bogus threat that it was. Victims were duped by bogus get-rich-quick schemes involving fake documents before the scam was exposed. So, in the meantime, if you do receive an unsolicited text message offering a bogus prize, what should you do? A body search of Prajim revealed 4,320 baht in cash and 150 bogus banknotes. Whatever the ins and outs of it, everyone has known the documents were bogus for at least four months. Virtually every roof tiler, vinyl layer and ceramic wall and floor tiler has been forced into bogus sub-contract arrangements. After investigations, police moved in on a house in Marabella earlier this week, where they seized bogus US currency and arrested two men. He said more than 200 businesses a month fell foul of bogus registration agencies, which often used threatening language and headed newspaper. In effect, all asylum seekers will be considered bogus until proven otherwise, and refugee charities are understandably beside themselves. The fact that conservative books dominate the best-seller list demonstrates how bogus such measures are as evidence of bias. Elderly people are being warned to beware of bogus callers following an attempted burglary. Data trackers will find better sources if they discover bogus information in their data trawls. In this way, the officials allegedly find an opportunity to misappropriate public funds by preparing bogus muster rolls. Show More Sentences The issue about radiation, together with the multiple misspellings of Russian words, makes it look a bit bogus to us. In my case I told them to shove it and said I would just keep deleting the bogus e-mails being rejected by other ISP servers. There is little concern about people coming to fill a skills gap, but a mighty tumult about bogus asylum seekers claiming benefits. Pensioners in Colchester were today told to keep their guard up after bogus callers struck twice. Figures on financial loss created by bogus claims involving hi-tech goods are hard to come by. It was difficult to avoid the conclusion that the claims of fair trade are bogus. Police are appealing to people in Darwen to keep their homes secure after bogus salesmen swooped on the town. Not only are we under constant threat from terrorists, asylum cheats and bogus chavs, honest citizens are now being oppressed by tops with hoods on them. It is not heartening that it took eight years for a grad student to catch the bogus math. The bogus mailshots look official in appearance and focus on data protection and warn of criminal offences if companies do not register with them. The inappropriate classification of a bogus site illustrates the early teething troubles of anti-phishing technology that may take some time to resolve. Too often, outmatched pilots looking for escape from a losing battle will feign a fatal hit and nose their aircraft over into a bogus death spiral. They were however concerned that they might be factoring bogus invoices. That's bogus, the casting couch is a myth created by the media. I urge all recipients of this bogus waste of paper to return them, without filling them in, to Mr Deasy so that at least he, and not us, has to pay for their disposal. The fights between differing entities or real enemies can be resolved, but the fights between brothers are irresolvable because they are bogus fights. His sermonette about how academics and polemicists misuse history when they construct bogus categories like Fordism and Taylorism was very nicely done. Local residents have claimed that one cause of the crisis is that bogus rate collectors are taking the money they collect, so it does not get paid to the council. However, this is a conservative estimate that suggests at most just one in eight of all non-resident accounts opened over the period in question were bogus. He also warned bogus account holders who have not yet been contacted by Revenue that tax officials are conducting further investigations to trace all such persons. Show More Sentences Elderly people are being warned about bogus callers posing as workmen. Doorstep crime includes all aspects of consumer detriment and crime including bogus workmen, high-pressure sales people, bogus officials, and distraction burglary. The Revenue will be sending two more large tranches of letters this year, so, based on earlier figures, there are, at least, tens of thousands of bogus account holders. But, as Brian Krebs reported, Zeus was also used to send out bogus emails to. They came to grief after detectives, posing as punters and using hidden cameras to catch the culprits red-handed, set up nine bogus deals with gang members. Except that when they popped outside for the photocall, the actors found themselves becoming the unexpected beneficiaries of the fictional bogus charity. On April 19, securities brokerage Cash Financial Group reported that a fake website with its company logo and name was arranging a bogus lucky draw for customers. With a nose for bogus facts, Johnson sets out to break the Internet by breaking news. He opens up about the bogus Midnight Express, Oliver Stone on blow, and his riveting one-man show. What do they do if they find out there are these bogus parts that can come unscrewed? Who knew Kim Kardashian, celebreality tabloid queen, would be the one to finally help us interrupt that bogus premise? The trouble with both these arguments is that they are bogus. Like all juicy urban legends this folk etymology is completely bogus. Except that when that happens, I conveniently find some bogus excuse or lame technicality to avoid paying your damages or to weasel my way into only paying part of them. Other justifications, such as procreation and the raising of children, have been dismissed as bogus. Grayson makes maps, recites facts, and creates bogus diagrams. These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money. Basically they're bogus entities that trigger an alarm when accessed. As well as advice on how to deal with bogus callers, securing property and the home, there will be tips on safeguarding gardening tools and machinery. Prosecutors were found to have withheld evidence showing that the alibi of another suspect who had bragged about committing the murders was bogus. Show More Sentences Their figures are as bogus as their claims to be non-political. Banks report very few of the estimated 25,000 to 50,000 bogus non-resident account holders have sought information to help avail of the Revenue Commissioner's amnesty. It amazes him how people get seduced by the bogus trappings of fame. The narrator showed how money was moved from Citibank to a bogus company. Detectives believe the driver may have been an unlicensed, bogus cabbie. Breeders with bogus American shorthairs produced through illicit hybridization would be allowed to transfer their cats to this newly created amnesty breed. There are reports that a support group for bogus non-resident account holders has retained lawyers to fight a number of cases against financial institutions. This ethnic dichotomy is historically and anthropologically bogus. It's this bogus idea of putting power into the hands of the people. Charlatans sell bogus patent medicines by Internet and infomercial. The 13.6 gb file was first posted online via viralpop.com, a bogus website. Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching. They might even assent to the idea that more and more women want marriage and children, not the bogus liberation that the sexual revolution purveyed. The danger remains that in focusing on bogus risks, we miss the real ones. The Asian mechanic, AF, was arrested after Al Rifa'a policemen found him conducting a bogus CID mission inside a Dubai hotel last year. According to historian Miriam Griffin, such bogus and romantic claims to antiquity were not uncommon at the time. Instead, many fall victim to illusions of reformism, bourgeois democracy, technotopianism, lifestylism, and other bogus schemes. She is the latest victim of the gang who are targeting elderly people in a maildrop across Scotland from a bogus address in England. When a second lorry arrived to pick up the champers, the All England Club realised that the first collection was bogus and informed the police. The incident in Bogwood Road, Mayfield, Midlothian, was one of almost 1000 bogus calls a year made to Lothian and Borders Fire Service. Show More Sentences Like most cases of Missing Trader fraud it involves mobile phones and a series of bogus trades between sham companies. Ferreira's lawyer, Surendra Gadling dubbed all the charges levelled against him as bogus. Penney, Diners Club and every other company that granted bogus credit that they had made a mistake. The news show also shared that Burk reportedly filed a bogus lawsuit against Johnson for palimony. The use of fake degrees by individuals, either obtained from a bogus institution or simply invented, is often covered by fraud laws. Wise, and, most famously, the bogus orientalia of Sir Edmund Backhouse could be highly profitable. Age Concern in Durham will be joining up with Durham Constabulary to present a Beat The Bogeyman talk about how to handle bogus callers. The rental scam Rogue house-sitters or even burglars show would-be tenants around properties that aren't even theirs after producing bogus adverts. But just as the newspapers aren't the only culpable parties in the phone-hacking scandal, so the fakers aren't the only ones implicated in the bogus booze industry. Projects carried out in previous years include Bogus Babes from Stokesley who launched an anticrime initiative to warn people about bogus doorstep callers. A 36-year-old British trader was served a fresh arrest warrant Tuesday on suspicion of cashing bogus travelers' checks in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture in 1998, police said. The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal. The provision is the latest step Oregon lawmakers have taken in their fight against bogus degrees, diploma mills, and non-accredited institutions in general. Examples from Classical Literature The ease with which adventurers and bogus schemers get their claws into English moneybags, is something astounding. Save for subsiding bubbles, and the bogus water, there was nothing there. She must explain to me how that bogus money came into her possession. By some fearful mischance I dropped a real despatch and not the bogus one. Wall, I must say I like yer looks a heap better nor I did the bogus one! Suspect the message as bogus and emanating from Y. M. See Furneaux. There were also 336 bogus calls made to the police, i ncludi ng 57 bomb hoaxes. Hoaxers targeted oil and gas major Royal Dutch Shell, sending a bogus statement to news organisations about the company's operations in Nigeria. Early on in the Golden Venture saga, an INS official went so far as to claim that 99 percent of the asylum claims of those on board were bogus. To give equal weight to the charge and the countercharge, regardless how bogus one of them might be, is totally deceptive. The ban was helped by propaganda that purposely confused frilly automatic weapons with semi-automatics and made bogus claims about their use by criminals. The event of Tess Durbeyfield's return from the manor of her bogus kinsfolk was rumoured abroad, if rumour be not too large a word for a space of a square mile. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bogus? Words that rhyme with bogus What is the plural of bogus? What is the adverb for bogus? What is the adjective for bogus? What is the noun for bogus? Translations for bogus Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Bogue bogue bog-standard bogs Bogota Bogosian Bogus bogusness bogwood bogy bogyman boh 5-letter Words Starting With b bo bog bogu