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Don't be fooled by such spurious arguments.spurious = false and misleading
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That spurious claim has already been dismissed by the court.spurious = false
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The rural children who could, usually brought clippings from what they called The Grit Paper, a publication spurious in the eyes of Miss Gates, our teacher. (source)spurious = full of things that are not true
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...and when in each instance the witness was shown photographs of Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, he had identified the former as the author of the spurious checks, the latter as his "silent" accomplice. (source)spurious = not genuine
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His questions had the spurious elevation of a scholar seeking information, but... (source)spurious = false; or not genuine
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Nods with spurious confidence. (source)spurious = false
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These are spurious claims. (source)spurious = false
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Her tone was spuriously jolly.† (source)
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The aristocracy he defended, in spite of the political marriages by which it tried to secure breeding for itself, had its mind undertrained by silly schoolmasters and governesses, its character corrupted by gratuitous luxury, its self-respect adulterated to complete spuriousness by flattery and flunkeyism.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Was she one and the same with the spurious Wagon Lit attendant? (source)
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The teaching he had offered, no matter how spuriously, had attracted this true believer, this one who had somehow achieved enlightenment, marked men's minds with his sainthood, and then gone willingly into the hands of Death himself.† (source)
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Pain had exposed the nerves and given the face a kind of spurious intelligence. (source)spurious = false (seeming genuine, but not really so)
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She liked the park because, however spuriously, it re-created something of the landscape she had known.† (source)
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...yet to them their funerals and graves, the little puny affirmations of spurious immortality set above their slumber, are of incalculable importance. (source)spurious = false; or not genuine
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The cellar of the barn was spuriously cool, dank, smelling of cobwebs and earthwater.† (source)
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Each was too proud to increase the pressure, but neither withdrew it, and a spurious unity descended on them, as local and temporary as the gleam that inhabits a firefly. (source)
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