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• By means of this loop, an ultimately “sourceless” factoid gains a spurious authority.2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “6. Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are.”, in larrysanger.org. From the entry factoid
• Clearly, there is no solution to the problem of spurious center-of-mass motion in the nonseparable case.2013, R. R. Whitehead, A. Watt, B. J. Cole, I. Morrison, “Computational Methods for Shell-model Calculations”, in Michel Baranger, Erich…. From the entry spuriosity
• Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.2012, The Guardian, (headline), 7 Feb 2012. From the entry astrology
• Menless women—female bachelors, divorcées, authentic and spurious widows—were mostly told off each in one room.1905, Emil Friend, “The Alliance”, in Masks: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Geo. W. Ogilvie & Co., page 19. From the entry menless
• Nor do I want to overrelativize things or establish some sort of spurious moral equivalence between us and them.2024, Mark Freeman, “The (Al)lure of Narrative: Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation in the Time of Coronavirus”, in Martin…. From the entry overrelativize
• Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas.2004, Michael A. Caloyannides, Privacy Protection and Computer Forensics, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry pseudoanalytical
• Spurious accounts that snare the gullible are readily available.1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random…. From the entry gullible
• But we may suppose that John has set his priorities in such a way that the quandary is spurious.1995, Douglas N. Walton, Erik C. W. Krabbe, Commitment in Dialogue: Basic Concepts of Interpersonal Reasoning, page 54. From the entry quandary
• These spurious intensity distributions tend to outblot faint stains or to enhance the interference between stains belonging to the same cluster.1983, Hans Wilhelm Schüssler, Signal processing II, page 292. From the entry outblot
• Our human trait of unwillingness to admit word ignorance often leads to survival of duplicated or spurious meanings.1965 December, GB Elliott, “Miniature endocrine amplifiers as end organs of the involuntary nervous system: The functional linkage between…. From the entry namesmanship
• An example was prolefeed, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses.1949, Orwell, George, 1903-1950, Nineteen eighty-four, →OCLC. From the entry prolefeed
• A probably trustworthy fifth-century BC copy of his homicide law survives, but the account of the ‘Draconian constitution’ given by Aristotle is almost certainly spurious.1987, Ian Morris, “Introduction: the argument”, in Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State (New Studies in…. From the entry Dracon
• The idea that ‘fitspo’ images have anything to do with health or fitness is entirely spurious and the use of my picture is proof of this.2013 October 14, Harriet Williamson, “Beware of the dangerous fetishising of fitness on social media”, in The Telegraph. From the entry fitspo
• Pseudohypoxaemia or spurious hypoxaemia is a recurrent problem faced on arterial blood gas analysis in patients with hyperleucocytosis leading to management dilemmas and unnecessary respiratory interventions.2012, K.N. Prasad, Prabhu Manjunath, L. Priya, and Sanjay Sasikumar, “Overcoming the problem of pseudohypoxemia in myeloproliferative…. From the entry pseudohypoxemia
• In a work attributed to Albertus Magnus, but which is probably spurious, we are told that Alexander the Great found the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron.1997, H. Stanley Redgrove, Alchemy Ancient and Modern (Facsimile Reprint), page 40. From the entry smaragdine
• However, if a wing is wrongly clustered, it, in effect, has introduced a spurious wing in one cluster and its rightful cluster will be missing a wing.1992, Greg Chungmou Lee, Reconstruction of Line Drawing Graphs from Fused Range and Intensity Imagery. From the entry miscluster
• For disorders sharply delimited by age, this criterion may give a spurious impression of imprecision; where feasible in such instances, numbers of deaths are also entabled.1973, Leonard T. Kurland, John F. Kurtzke, Irving D. Goldberg, Epidemiology of Neurologic and Sense Organ Disorders, page xxx. From the entry entable
• The majority of what we prescientifically called ‘water’ has more than one microstructural feature that we could have concluded distinguishes the true from the spurious samples believed to be water.2008 October 22, R. W. Fischer, “Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI. From the entry prescientifically
• But Lamennais’s anti-Gallicanism is throughout an unmistakable presence: the church is not the creature of the state, which, on Gallican principles – its spurious ‘liberties’ – it could easily become.1985, Bernard M. G. Reardon, Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry anti-Gallicanism
• And no less spurious is the theory that, in either case or in both together, the jury is possessed of a remarkably rich acumen in the matter of theatrical values.1971, George Jean Nathan, The Entertainment of a Nation: Or, Three-sheets in the Wind, page 130. From the entry jury

Meaning of spurious

1. adjective False, not authentic, not genuine.
2. adjective Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.
3. adjective Bastardly, illegitimate.

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How do you use spurious in a sentence?

Spurious is used as an adjective. For example: “His argument was spurious and had no validity.”

What is a short sentence with spurious?

“His argument was spurious and had no validity.”

What does spurious mean?

Spurious means false, not authentic, not genuine.