adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a spurious smile
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A jury has rejected the spurious claim that the police created evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also it would permit additions, such as image processing, with a prospect of eliminating spurious subject material in software.
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As a label it conveys a sense of purpose and purveys an often spurious impression of coherence and integrity in working relationships.
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Because the novel is written mainly in dialogue, a spurious impression was given that it would be easy to adapt.
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But for all the spurious emphasis on homogeneity, there are also moments when everyone becomes a gaijin, an outsider.
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Experiments involve a spurious association between the novel food and the illness which is usually induced chemically or by X-rays.
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It is sensitive to slight movements of the camera, subject or reference strip and will sometimes trigger spurious diagnostics.
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This authorisation could, of course, be spurious and be disguising condoned truancy.
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We now know that the strength of that original relationship contained a spurious component.