Sentence examples for mostly bogus from inspiring English sources

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Ms. McGrath-McKechnie, however, described the industry's objections as mostly "bogus".

Instead, he spends a whole chapter on cyberterrorism, which he rightly dismisses as a mostly bogus threat.

When China-India relations are strained, this gives rise to tit-for-tat and mostly bogus accusations of illegal border incursions for which each side can offer the other's empty cigarette and noodle packets as evidence.

There is, however, a problem: this account of a traditional herald of Turkish modernity, renamed Ahmet the Timely, is mostly bogus, depicting him, among other impostures, at the Ottoman siege of Vienna.

And so the Democrats have tried to run a national campaign this year based upon three tiny, and mostly bogus, themes: scaring senior citizens about the imminent privatization of Social Security; pandering to senior citizens by proposing an expensive and ill-considered prescription-drug plan; and blaming George W. Bush — in vague terms, without offering an alternative — for the economic downturn.

A bit like taking an E. But I also had the strong suspicion that the claims made for its benefits – the higher IQ, the protection against obesity, the superior bonding, the warding off of disease both now and for ever, both for baby and for mother – were mostly bogus.

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Offshore entities played key roles at Bayou Management, a Connecticut hedge fund that collapsed in scandal in 2005, as well as at Enron, which used nearly 900 offshore entities, mostly in the Cayman Islands, to conceal bogus trades and accounting fraud.

Though fact-checkers have frequently noted Trump's Iraq dishonesty, TV interviewers have mostly failed to call him out on his bogus claim.

We've pretty much rejected Wilder's religion, Louis B. Mayer's comforting (if bogus) platitudes and Rockwell's masterfully simple reassurances, mostly to our detriment.

New York City's Board of Elections had received about 18,000 new voter registrations last week, mostly for the Independence Party, up to a third of them potentially bogus, officials said.

Mr. Bedie invented a bogus ideology, called Ivoirite, which sought to distinguish purebred citizens, mostly deemed to be his own southern Christians, from supposed latecomers, especially northern Muslims like Mr. Ouattara.

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