bogus

Modifies a noun

• caller: The third victim of bogus callers on February 8 was a 69 year old man living at Bucks Hill.
• workman: He also asked the lady's normal gardener for a business card, which was handed over to the bogus workman.
• seeker: Those measures will help us separate bogus asylum seekers from genuine asylum seekers.
• asylum-seeker: Domestic electorates must be persuaded that their governments are being tough with " scroungers " and " bogus asylum-seekers " .
• scam: This is a bogus scam that is doing the rounds on many websites, not just car related.
• collector: Occasionally houses are targeted by ' bogus collectors ' .

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: It's shown that Labor's claim that it represents rural Britain is utterly bogus.
• totally: The information contained in the email is totally bogus, the sender is attempting to defraud the recipient.
• entirely: The most costly frauds are those which are either entirely bogus or staged.
• completely: The substance of his point is completely bogus from my point of view.
• not: Not bogus, false choices - designed to distract.
• transparently: Mr Justice David Steel, hearing the case at first instance, dismissed this excuse as " transparently bogus " .

Used with adjective complement

• seem: They would not have been trying to make the account seem bogus!
• consider: Following ( real ) packets would be ignored as they are considered bogus.
• use: Spammers almost exclusively use bogus sending addresses so will not see the error message.
• circulate: Plans and individuals instituted its aetna you with a. Have to buy for circulating bogus chooses to have.
• see: I have personally seen bogus " death threats " he claims that were left on this vehicle at very opportune times.