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Definition of Spurious

Spurious

  1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
  2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

Spurious Quotations

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John le Carre

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
William Vickrey

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
Abraham Kuyper
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Spurious Translations

spurious in Spanish is espurio

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