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spurious (adjective), more spurious, most spurious
1. Not genuine, insincere, not authentic, counterfeit: Edward gave his wife a necklace of spurious pearls which were fakes.
2. Based on false ideas or bad reasoning: Shelby made a spurious claim to her health insurance for medication that she never used or needed.
3. In botany, that which is similar in appearance but different in structure or function: There are some spurious parts of plants that superficially resemble those of other plants, but they are not the same.
4. Etymology: from Latin spurius, "false, illegitimate".
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2. Based on false ideas or bad reasoning: Shelby made a spurious claim to her health insurance for medication that she never used or needed.
3. In botany, that which is similar in appearance but different in structure or function: There are some spurious parts of plants that superficially resemble those of other plants, but they are not the same.
4. Etymology: from Latin spurius, "false, illegitimate".
The sense of having an illegitimate or being of an invald origin, not properly qualified or constituted, is recorded first in Ben Jonson's 1601 The Poetaster and the extended sense of "false, sham, counterfeit" appeared in 1615.
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A reference to being false or not genuine. (3)
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