Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a spurious manner; counterfeitly; falsely.
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- adverb In a
spurious manner.
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- adverb in a false and spurious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Moreover, her dating of the subdivision of Xikwembu at the moment of the original Xivuri occupation of ka Mudaka stakes a firm foundational claim for her own lineage by erasing any role the Portuguese, Gaza rulers, or intervening Xivuri chiefs may have played in spuriously elevating it to power.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The name of Idaho was spuriously ascribed to the Shoshone language, meaning, it was claimed, the sun comes from the mountains.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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When they were going after the salaries and bonuses, I thought the Feds were being spuriously regulative.
Geopolitics 2010
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Yet the EPI study attempts to compare them, finding, spuriously, that public sector J.D.'s and M.D.'s are getting the shaft as compared to private-sector ones.
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When they were going after the salaries and bonuses, I thought the Feds were being spuriously regulative.
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The name of Idaho was spuriously ascribed to the Shoshone language, meaning, it was claimed, the sun comes from the mountains.
Names 2009
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Just because you risk being found spuriously guilty by association, it does not follow that you have a stake in refuting the guilt of those (false) associates, anymore than libertarians need either defend McVeigh or try to claim he was not a libertarian.
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Yet the EPI study attempts to compare them, finding, spuriously, that public sector J.D.'s and M.D.'s are getting the shaft as compared to private-sector ones.
On Wisconsin, again 2011
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And this is now the second time on VC that a post has claimed, spuriously, that he thinks the state lawsuits havemerit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association 2010
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When they were going after the salaries and bonuses, I thought the Feds were being spuriously regulative.
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