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spurious

adjective

spu·​ri·​ous ˈspyu̇r-ē-əs How to pronounce spurious (audio)
1
: born to parents not married to each other
2
: outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine qualities : false
the spurious eminence of the pop celebrity
3
a
: of falsified or erroneously attributed origin : forged
b
: of a deceitful nature or quality
spurious excuses
spuriously adverb
spuriousness noun

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The classical Latin adjective spurius started out as a word meaning "illegitimate." In the days of ancient Rome, it was sometimes even used as a first name for illegitimate offspring (apparently with no dire effects). There was a certain Spurius Lucretius, for example, who was made temporary magistrate of Rome. In less tolerant times, 18th-century English writer Horace Walpole noted that Henry VII "came of the spurious stock of John of Gaunt." Today, we still use spurious to mean "illegitimate," but the more common meaning is "false" (a sense introduced to spurious in Late Latin). Originally our "false" sense emphasized improper origin, and it still often does ("a spurious signature"), but it can also simply mean "fake" or "not real."

Synonyms

Example Sentences

One reiterated theme of his book is that the electoral process can be the most dangerous of delusions, tending to confer a spurious legitimacy on those most willing to corrupt it. Hilary Mantel, New York Review, 21 Sept. 2006 Of all the potentially spurious phrases regularly found lurking on book jackets, none should be approached with greater wariness than "This is his first novel." Tony Early, New York Times Book Review, 30 Apr. 2000 I have no special interest in defending modern finance theory, but I think it is important to get this straight, lest Soros's own ideas acquire spurious validity as a practical corrective to academic moonshine. Robert M. Solow, New Republic, 12 Apr. 1999 a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks
Recent Examples on the Web The heart of the MAGA movement is the Big Lie, denying the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election on spurious, conspiratorial claims. Abdul El-sayed, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2022 As a journalistic stance, neutrality is worthless, and usually spurious, because everyone is a partisan of some kind. George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 Yoga to the People closed its doors in 2020, blaming the coronavirus pandemic, but the charges against its leaders have shed new light on spurious business practices. Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022 Recent advances in machine vision have inspired a new wave of spurious claims, including that an algorithm can detect whether a person is gay, a criminal, fit to be an employee, or telling lies at an EU border post. WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022 Reed was also sentenced to nine years of imprisonment after he was convicted of assault, a charge his family considered to be spurious and politically motivated. New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022 In March, Iran released dual Iranian/British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who had been unlawfully detained in the country for six years, under spurious charges of planning to overthrow the Iranian government. K.j. Yossman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022 Tehran has detained several other Western citizens on spurious charges, then used them as leverage to obtain release of frozen funds or Iranian citizens incarcerated in other countries. Masih Alinejad And Darya Safai, WSJ, 22 July 2022 Consider Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post opinion writer who was detained in Iran for a year and a half on spurious charges and freed in a prisoner swap in 2016. New York Times, 22 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin spurius false, from Latin, of illegitimate birth, from spurius, noun, bastard

First Known Use

circa 1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of spurious was circa 1567

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