Definitions for spurious

spurious spu·ri·ous

Spelling: [spyoo r-ee-uh s]
IPA: /ˈspyʊər i əs/

Spurious is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in spurious (ioprssuu).

Definitions for spurious

adjective

  1. not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
  2. Biology. (of two or more parts, plants, etc.) having a similar appearance but a different structure.
  3. of illegitimate birth; bastard.

Origin of spurious

1590-1600; Latin spurius bastard, perhaps Etruscan; see -ous

Examples for spurious

President Obama repeated the spurious gender wage gap statistic in his State of the Union address.

The State is not to be forgotten for some spurious personal individuality.

A spurious, wrong-headed idea that spreads virally and poisons public discourse.

There is, however, a good deal of spurious family affection.

There were the eyes that fell away before the spurious effrontery of her own glance.

Some of the spurious Greek works of the Hippocratic collection have also case notes.

She was aware how often spurious communications followed the death of a public figure.

With more than 360,000 people, a resurrected New Orleans stands out in high relief from the spurious values of the Tea Party.

"The spurious China Joe and one other man escaped in a car," Ned reported.

Corry argues that this is merely a political opinion, backed by questionable and spurious data.

Word Value for spurious
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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