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False, inauthentic, or illegitimate despite appearing or claiming to be genuine.
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Words that belong together
- a spurious claim
- spurious evidence
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The spurious letter changed the inquiry before its paper was examined.
He built his defense on a spurious distinction between silence and consent.
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- spurious
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more spurious; superlative most spurious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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