adjective
- Plausible but false.
- usage: "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
- synonyms: specious
- Born out of wedlock."the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring- E. A. Freeman
- synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten
- Intended to deceive.
- usage: "a spurious work of art"
- synonyms: inauthentic, unauthentic
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