Spurious - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈspjʊrɪəs|
Brit.
|ˈspjʊərɪəs|
adjective
- ostensibly valid, but not actually valid
a spurious argument
- plausible but false (syn: specious)spurious inferences
- born out of wedlock (syn: bastardly, misbegotten)the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring
- false or fake; not what it appears to bea spurious work of art
Extra examples
...a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second...
...claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks...
He should be able to distinguish what is Genuine in them from what is Spurious.
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