Bogus

Something that is "bogus" is something that is useless, bad or fake.

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Example: This calculator is broken, it gives bogus results.

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The word bogus was first recorded in usage in the 1820s, referring to a machine for producing counterfeit money; its modern usage seem to have developed from there.

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In hacker jargon, "bogus" has various usages with meanings such as "wrong", "nonfunctional", or "nonsensical", and has spawned related words such as "bogosity".

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In Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, this word appears often when Jimmy and Crake are still teenagers.

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