spurious
IPA: spjˈʊriʌs
adjective
- False, not authentic, not genuine.
- Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.
- (archaic) Bastardly, illegitimate.
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Examples of "spurious" in Sentences
- A novel on more positive, constructive lines, and not emotionally spurious, is at present very difficult to imagine.
- Makdisi rejects what he calls the spurious idea -- advanced by historian Samuel Huntington and others -- of a "Clash of Civilizations" between Islam and the West.
- He remains, however, a social and psychological menace; for mere size still has a certain spurious publicity value, a base hold over the enfeebled imaginations of the crowd.
- Maybe OT, but I think originally the term spurious correlation is from Pearson’s On a form of spurious correlation which may arise when indices are used in the measurement of organs.
- Unless one’s preference is for the government to be involved in spurious schemes such as selling arms to Iran and then using the proceeds to fund a terrorist movement in Central America.
- During the day shoot, my team was easily on its way and during the night shoot; if not for a certain spurious character my team would have won the marksman badge along with the cash bonus.
- My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts (according to me the only genuine ones), of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own and my friends '-- yours, dear
- That Eusebius recurred to this medium of information, and that he had examined with attention this species of proof, is shown, first, by a passage in the very chapter we are quoting, in which, speaking of the books which he calls spurious,
- Perhaps the most overwhelming distortion of the BBC in its coverage of Israel and Palestine is what I term "spurious equivalence": that the Palestinians and Israelis are two equal sides "at war" over "disputed" territory and may the best man win.
- In other parts of his works, he speaks very doubtfully of this epistle, and in one passage, where he distributes the books into classes, he mentions it among the books which he calls spurious; by which, however, he only means that it was not canonical.
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