spurious
- adjective
- /ˈspjʊəriəs/
- Offensive
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bastardo
- He felt like a spurious child, never fully accepted by either family.
Examples
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Thus, that positive right to health care is a spurious and illegitimate claim.
Blog text (18) -
Among American public health specialists, it is commonly held that the association between illegitimacy and higher rates of infant mortality is spurious.
Academic text (1991) -
These are the critical reflections that Rosso also engaged in his work, above all the topos of investing what is dead with a spurious quality of life.
Academic text (2002) -
Not unlike Sophocles's Oedipus, Saleem thinks of himself as a spurious child who, in his case, was taken by a maid from a poor mother and exchanged for the baby that his rich mother gave birth to.
Academic text (2008) -
The rumors about her spurious lineage caused much gossip in the village.
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As a spurious heir, he had no legal rights to the family estate.
Synonyms
39
6.1
A child or marriage not recognized by law because the parents were not married
23
5.3
A child born to parents who are not married
1
9.9
A child born to parents who are not married
A child born to parents who are not married
Born to parents who are not married to each other
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spurious originally meant 'born out of wedlock' and comes from the Latin spurius, the word for 'illegitimate'. In older law and writing it was used for a child not seen as a true family member.