bogus vs true

bogus

adj
  • Counterfeit or fake; not genuine. 

  • Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp). 

  • Undesirable or harmful. 

  • Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions. 

  • Incorrect, useless, or broken. 

noun
  • A liquor made of rum and molasses. 

true

adj
  • Genuine; legitimate, valid. 

  • As an ellipsis of "(while) it is true (that)", used to start a sentence 

  • Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. 

  • Correctly aligned or calibrated, without deviation. 

  • based on actual historical events. 

  • Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct. 

  • Used in the designation of group of species, or sometimes a single species, to indicate that it belongs to the clade its common name (which may be more broadly scoped in common speech) is restricted to in technical speech, or to distinguish it from a similar species, the latter of which may be called false. 

  • Fair, unbiased, not loaded. 

  • Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result. 

  • Loyal, faithful. 

  • Accurate; following a path toward the target. 

adv
  • Accurately. 

verb
  • To straighten (of something that is supposed to be straight). 

  • To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. 

noun
  • The state of being in alignment. 

How often have the words bogus and true occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )