spurious

Speech parts

1. spurious - Adjective

2. spurious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

false counterfeit fake fictitious bogus specious inauthentic artificial misleading illegitimate erroneous fabricated fraudulent untrue bastard
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Antonyms

genuine right just certain total good
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Phrases with the word

spurious wing spurious fruit spurious correlation spurious coin spurious book spurious literature

Examples

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. Gunnar Myrdal

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. William Vickrey

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. Abraham Kuyper

I'm going to teach them some genuine skills that I use, peppered with some spurious pop-psychology and quite a lot of bullshit. Derren Brown

A spurious axiom of the first class is: Whatever is, is somewhere and sometime. Immanuel Kant

Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty. George Bernard Shaw

Close letter words and terms

spurion spurionic spuriosity spurious book spurious coin spurious correlation