spurious
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˈspjʊəriəs/
:
espurio
- Thus, Cypriot modernity, according to tourists, is spurious, a second-rate version of the original.
- spurious effect
- spurious correlation
- spurious association
Stories about people who are blinded by their own spurious convictions.
- Stories about people who are blinded by their own spurious convictions.
- That's why using DDT can prevent formation of spurious disulfide bridges.
- I think the church demonstrated that it has a spurious relationship with justice as well.
- In times of great uncertainty people will turn to more spurious or more narrative based solutions.
- They threatened to sue me on complete spurious grounds claiming that I've broken the law, which I never had.
- And now we've got deep, deep fakes, shoring all that up and just spurious, you know, scientific articles shoring all that up.
- And, and I've just been shocked that a number of leaders in the Central Valley continue to want to raise what I think are spurious, specious issues.
- And they're, they're inevitably going to be spurious claims, or at least claims which are ambiguous to some degree.
- There is a sense of greater priority to principles, but one person's principle might be another person's spurious doctrine and and vice versa.
- And that caused the environment that that caused the brain differences, in which case their correlation is, you know, sort of spurious in a way.
- So there is the distinction between genuine goods and what we might call spurious or only apparent goods that are called so by the many.
- And also we started getting spurious crashes at one point, which was really frustrating because of course we're thinking, well, maybe it's just our image is no good.
Examples
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Peter Novick's own contribution to the cover-up of his student's spurious scholarship casts additional light on his standards.
Academic text (1995) -
"Colonel Martin invited me to discuss my concerns about the spurious evangelist."
Fiction book (1990) -
I think the church demonstrated that it has a spurious relationship with justice as well.
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Several additional variables are included in the analysis to control for spurious relationships.
Academic text (1990) -
In times of great uncertainty people will turn to more spurious or more narrative based solutions.
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Many of the studies I reviewed demonstrated weak research methods, which may have produced spurious findings.
Academic text (1999) -
In both of these cases, the correlation approach could result in a spurious finding of market integration.
Academic text (1991) -
The accusations against my niece are all spurious lies.
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Dreyfus was disgraced in public and jailed on spurious evidence.
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The scientist's claims were dismissed as spurious after it was proven he manipulated the data.
Synonyms
833
1.8
Not real and made to look like something real
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2.8
Not real and made to trick people
220
5.3
Trying to seem real to deceive people
153
5.6
Fake and made to trick people
80
6.7
Made to look like the real thing to trick people
28
7.5
Not real but made to look like something real to copy it
15
8.7
Appearing true but actually wrong
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6.6
Not real and not what it looks like
1
7.4
Not real or true
An object that is not real or original and is often a fake
Presented as real but actually fake
Made to look real to trick people
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.7
A link between two things that looks like one causes the other but a third thing causes both
- Specialized
A small group of stiff feathers on a bird's thumb that helps control flight
How False
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spurious comes from the old Latin word spurius, which meant 'illegitimate' or not a true child. That's why spurious today describes something 'not genuine' or false.