spurious
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A spokesperson for Onset said the creditor committee’s claims are “unsupported and baseless and strategically made as part of a spurious scorched-earth litigation tactic to serve their own financial interests in this bankruptcy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
Many politicians and government employees learned from The Times that they had been targeted with spurious filings.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
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
The restrictions "are based on entirely spurious security and public order grounds", said Dinushika Dissanayake, an Amnesty's specialist on Europe.
From BBC • May 1, 2025
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
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