Sentence example with the word 'spurious'

spurious

affected, brummagem, distorted, fake, fictive, inauthentic, miscreated, phony, queer, soi-disant, twisted, unreliable

Definition adj. plausible but false

Last update: August 28, 2016


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The con artist made a spurious claim about being a member of the royal family.   [adjective]

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The same fishermen are also appalled at the prospect of losing most of the rich prawn fishery in a spurious attempt to save cod.   [noun]

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It was a doctored composition--a churchman's spurious history, trumped up by Charles's friends and partisans, possibly with the approval of the King himself.   [adjective]

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Amasis' real child received the name of Tachot, the spurious one was called Nitetis.   [adjective]

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Let us not be blinded by a spurious justice.   [adjective]

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We have now to consider the so-called spurious bows which are sometimes seen at the inner edge of the primary and at the outer edge of the secondary bow.   [Please select]

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The Doctor demanded ten thousand for his spurious one.   [Please select]

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Another source of Pessimism is the reaction from unearned pleasures and from spurious joys.   [Please select]

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Pera is spurious, and all its voices are spurious voices.   [Please select]

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