spurious
false or fake despite a deceptive appearance of authenticity
Word origin: From Latin spurius, illegitimate or false.
Spurious in a sentence
Here are example sentences showing spurious in a sentence.
The manuscript turned out to be a spurious nineteenth-century forgery.
The manuscript was exposed as spurious once chemical analysis dated the ink to the wrong century.
Using “spurious” well
Spurious means false or fake despite an appearance of authenticity, as with a forged document or a spurious correlation. It denies genuineness at the root, not merely accuracy.
More GRE words starting with S
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