The Only Use
spurious
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- 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.
p. 279.9spurious = full of things that are not true
Definitions:
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(1)
(spurious) false, or not genuine -- often seeming plausible, or intentionally deceptive
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)