1 false, although seeming to be genuine:
He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving.
2 based on false ideas or ways of thinking:
a spurious argument
spuriously adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for spurious is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is spurious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, spurious is tagged as adjective.
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