Like the Piltdown Man

Usage examples of bogus.

But soon or late--and probably disconcertingly soon--the great mass of sensible and agnostic women will turn upon them and depose them, and thereafter the woman vote will be no longer at the disposal of bogus Great Thinkers and messiahs.

The consultant -Colville - had clearly taken Paul completely at face value, and presumably a man of his experience and qualifications would have been able to spot a bogus amnesiac with far more facility than she herself would.

The story was bogus, insisted a little-known blogger named LisaS posting on the Right Voices site.

Negro teacher and educator might as well admit the fact of their incompetency and with the admission bend themselves with renewed energy to hard study, laying aside all bogus degrees and meaningless titles, and acknowledge the fact that they are yet intellectual pigmies.

Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet, and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies, but with that experience, the compass of the self can be set.

Lord of the Flies crew thought Gio was faking the apology as much as the Doormat probably thought my part in it was bogus.

A boy with none of the glaring faults of a lout like Goofus, a boy with none of the bogus suburban qualities of Gallant.

So the scene between the pair of them, the licensee of the place rumoured to be or have been Fitzharris, the famous invincible, and the other, obviously bogus, reminded him forcibly as being on all fours with the confidence trick, supposing, that is, it was prearranged as the lookeron, a student of the human soul if anything, the others seeing least of the game.

Denise might have had a few zippy gadgets, but her real advantage over us was how willing people were to sign up to her bogus resistance movement.

Sagebrush Smith and the bogus Sally Surett returned to the hotel room, Everett Everett Barr greeted them heartily.

The one thing her bosses stressed after teaching her be a bogus masseuse was that you get your violation of law without ever touching it.

Over the last twenty years, the worldwide net had come to be a midden of bogus sites and recursive fraudulence.

Carol Marcus saw of the fake Jim and David on the equally bogus Regula I space station, the more she hated them.

It was obvious that The Terrine was staked out, but as the bogus milkman moved down the street I wondered why he should have told me so much, unless a course of action had already been prepared for me.

The purpose of my exercise was to find out the mechanics of how gold is moved and traded, and secondly to test bogus documents which had been prepared for me by ex-intelligence friends of mine who specialized in this kind of thing.