spurious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. spurious [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Tuesday February 11, 2003
spurious SPYUR-ee-uhs, adjective:
1. Not proceeding from the true or claimed source; not genuine; false.
2. Of illegitimate birth.
Some of these graves are clearly spurious and were manufactured by nineteenth-century royalists who wanted evidence of an unbroken 2,000-year-old imperial line.
--Gale Eisenstodt, "Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain," The Atlantic, November 1998
We need at least to separate the real issue from the spurious.
--Eugene D. Genovese, "Getting States' Rights Right," The Atlantic, March 2001
Well, setting aside the sentimental nostalgia that elevates the "good old days" to a spurious perfection . . . the fact remains that Nellie Melba was a unique vocal phenomenon.
--Tim Page, "For Melba, a Well-Deserved Toast," Washington Post, February 9, 2003
Spurious comes from Latin spurius, "illegitimate, hence false, inauthentic."
Synonyms: bogus, counterfeit, false, sham, specious. Find more at Thesaurus.com.
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