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bogusness|ˈbəʊgəsnɪs|
[f. bogus a. + -ness.]
The fact or quality of being bogus.
1921H. L. Mencken Prejudices 2nd Ser. i. ix. 79 The old bogusness hangs about them [sc. the intelligentsia], as about the fashionable aristocrats of the society columns. c1935R. Sheridan Let. in C. Sheridan To Four Winds (1957) xxvii. 298 The pettiness, dirtiness, meanness, bogusness of it all. 1953F. Swinnerton Month in Gordon Square 9 The affectation was part of his general bogusness. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Jan. 47/3 Produces the same sort of bogusness as do those actors on the stage who cannot represent a member of the rural lower classes without bent knees. |