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Spurious

//ˈspjʊə.ɹi.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    False, not authentic, not genuine.

    "His argument was spurious and had no validity."

  2. 2
    Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.

    "I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding."

  3. 3
    Bastardly, illegitimate. archaic

    "[…] who alſo in her prime of love, Spouſal embraces, vitiated with Gold, Though offer’d only, by the ſent conceiv’d Her ſpurious firſt-born; Treaſon againſt me?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    false or fake; not what it appears to be wordnet
  2. 2
    born out of wedlock wordnet
  3. 3
    plausible but false wordnet
  4. 4
    ostensibly valid, but not actually valid wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.

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