spurious
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Spurious claims on the estate, he said, are also likely to start coming out of the woodwork.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2023
Spurious precision adds to a false sense of certainty.
From Nature • Jun. 23, 2020
Spurious rumours matter not, however: through years of turbulence and triumph she has rightly achieved her status as an official Feminist Role Model.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2015
Spurious correlations, outliers and other false alarms are among the inevitable risks when the research community lays its hands on a rich new data set.
From Economist • Jun. 27, 2012
Spurious, spūr′i-us, adj. illegitimate: bastard: not genuine: false: resembling an organ, but without its function, or having the functions of an organ while morphologically different.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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