Spurious

What the mayor is claiming is spurious and inflammatory.

The argument that the platform exists only to promote written language seems spurious.

The addition, from whatever source it was obtained, does not appear to me to be at all apposite, and therefore I conceive it to be spurious.

His books were filled with spurious arguments.

It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious.

The authoritarian acts being displayed towards Cop City protesters range from spurious detentions to summary executions.

His argument was spurious and had no validity.

We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.

[Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.

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