spurious

Example Sentences

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Its title suggests the regime is moving toward national reconciliation by extinguishing the spurious records it created of crimes it claims its opponents committed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The Home Office said it was "reviewing the law to end spurious legal challenges which delay deportations".

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

It’s not a spurious conclusion: Census data shows that the percentage of women aged 30–44 with no children is higher than it’s been since 1960.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

To argue otherwise, and to forgo it at this moment in particular, involves the denial of some pressing risks and the exaggeration of spurious others.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2024

That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else’s manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money!

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens