spurious
spurious
Adjective
- ostensibly valid, but not actually valid; “a spurious argument”
- plausible but false; “a specious claim”; “spurious inferences”
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- spuriousness
- speciousness
- meretriciousness
- born out of wedlock; “the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring”- E.A.Freeman
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- bastardly
- misbegot
- misbegotten
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- bastard
- by-blow
- love child
- illegitimate child
- illegitimate
- whoreson
- false or fake; not what it appears to be; “a spurious work of art”
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adjective
- not being what it purports to be; false or fake
separating authentic and spurious claims
(of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid
this spurious reasoning results in nonsense
Origin
late 16th century (in the sense born out of wedlock ): from Latin spurius false + -ous
Thesaurus
Adjective
- it was possible to arrange retirements on spurious medical grounds
Similar Words: bogus fake not genuine specious false factitious counterfeit fraudulent trumped-up sham mock feigned pretended contrived fabricated manufactured fictitious make-believe invalid fallacious meretricious artificial imitation simulated ersatz phoney pseudo pretend cod adulterine
Opposites: authentic genuine real
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