spurious.
False, not authentic, not genuine.
Meaning & usage
False, not authentic, not genuine.
His argument was spurious and had no validity.
Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.
I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.
Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.
Bastardly, illegitimate.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.
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