Thesaurus / spuriousness
other words for spuriousness
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
- non sequitur
- quibbling
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Let us now come to the extrinsic evidence, to determine the genuineness or spuriousness of these multifarious writings.
Joseph de Avila discovers the spuriousness of the Zohar, 20.
HISTORY OF THE JEWS, VOL. IV (OF VI)HEINRICH GRAETZ
I am no antiquarian, and, as a mere lover of beauty, I do not feel this "spuriousness."
THE SPELL OF EGYPTROBERT HICHENS
He relies more upon the evidence arising from too much similarity,96 as proving still more clearly the spuriousness of the Minos.
This in itself would be sufficient evidence of its spuriousness.
FRAUDS AND FOLLIES OF THE FATHERSJOSEPH MAZZINI WHEELER
A certain suspicion of spuriousness continued to cling to it, and greatly diminished its authority.
ROMAN MOSAICSHUGH MACMILLAN
Elaborate compounds, Latinisms, reiterations, are no proof of spuriousness.
These papers bore the strongest internal evidence of their spuriousness.
All these anachronisms decisively prove the spuriousness of these compositions.
Nor do I find any contemporary assertion of its spuriousness.
LIFE OF THOMAS BECKETHENRY HART MILMAN
WORDS RELATED TO SPURIOUSNESS
- apparition
- blunder
- casuistry
- chicanery
- daydream
- deception
- deceptiveness
- dream
- eidolon
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment
- ghost
- hallucination
- head trip
- ignis fatuus
- illusion
- lapse
- mirage
- misapprehension
- mistake
- optical illusion
- oversight
- phantasm
- phantom
- pipe dream
- self-deception
- shade
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- trickery
- trip
- vision
- apparition
- blunder
- casuistry
- chicanery
- daydream
- deception
- deceptiveness
- dream
- eidolon
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment
- ghost
- hallucination
- head trip
- ignis fatuus
- illusion
- lapse
- mirage
- misapprehension
- mistake
- optical illusion
- oversight
- phantasm
- phantom
- pipe dream
- self-deception
- shade
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- trickery
- trip
- vision
- ambiguity
- amphibology
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cop out
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- run-around
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
- artifice
- bamboozlement
- barratry
- blackmail
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- craft
- deceit
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- extortion
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwinking
- hustle
- imposture
- line
- misrepresentation
- racket
- scam
- sell
- shakedown
- sham
- sharp practice
- skunk
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spuriousness
- sting
- string
- swindle
- swindling
- treachery
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- non sequitur
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quibbling
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
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