Definitions
false or fake; not what it appears to be
Word origin
Borrowed from Late Latin spurius (“illegitimate, bastardly”), possibly related to sperno or from Etruscan.
Used in a sentence
“His argument was spurious and had no validity.”
“I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.”
“Spurious emissions from the wireless mast were causing nearby electrical equipment to go haywire.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“False-seeming”8 letters
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