How to Use spurious in a Sentence

spurious

adjective
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  • Well, of course, Democrats laughed, laughed all of this off as spurious.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • But, alas, spurious balance dumps dung in the well even here.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2016
  • The comment drew lots of users to Google, curious about one thing: what does spurious mean?
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
  • My issue isn't with CRT, which is a movement that emerged in the 1970s to challenge the spurious notion that the law is impartial.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Some will be giving you much insight, but many will be spurious.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
  • But the Bail Project's experience gives the lie to the bail bond industry's spurious claims.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2023
  • But none of that has stopped Trump from continuing to proclaim his spurious gospel of fraud.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • And what about people who falsely tell the app they were infected, just to set off waves of spurious warnings?
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 14 May 2021
  • This spurious charge has circulated for 50 years in search of proof.
    — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • There are other spurious reasons for dodging the flu shot.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2020
  • How dare the Vikings fans besmirch our good names — what was left of them, anyway — with unfounded and spurious slanders.
    — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The simplest explanation, and the one the new papers argue for, is that the correlation was spurious in the first place.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
  • Other, more spurious claims — about the nature of cats themselves — may give readers pause.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Danish researchers also took measures to ensure that the link between the gene and the disorder was not spurious.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 17 June 2019
  • The publicity may be strained and the plots spurious, but in the ring there is no hiding from the reality of a jab, a cross, blood leaking from a swollen eye.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • There was no retraction or even correction, just a shift to a new line of spurious attack.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The world of food is no stranger to fake news: A banquet chef ran out of heavy cream, one spurious story goes, and invented mayonnaise.
    — Christopher Kimball, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Zippel wrote Tuesday night on X that the Jazz took Irving's side and that the team had cited a spurious policy to get the signs taken down.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Those who persevere are harassed by the police or charged with spurious crimes.
    — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Court after court threw out Trump's spurious claims of election fraud after his defeat to Biden.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • China hopes France can at least hold a fair and level-headed stance, and not side with those spurious arguments.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • But there are reasons to think that causal claims inferred from the correlation are spurious.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Its purpose, though, is to give Mr Putin’s ploy an air of spurious legality.
    — The Economist, 10 Mar. 2020
  • But the presidential election, no matter how spurious, is in three months, and Nadezhdin says someone has to speak up.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Contrary to Goldberg’s spurious claim, the Prime Minister does not seek to preserve the status quo.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2016
  • A number of prominent players skipped the game for what appeared to be spurious reasons.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
  • Regardless of whether the accusations against Mr. Stringer and Mr. Adams prove spurious or damning, one thing is true, at least for now.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Now, Pence is ending his tenure with an even bigger test of whether to support Trump’s spurious election claims.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Yet none of the genomes showed more than one percent European ancestry, a fraction low enough to be ascribed to a spurious statistical fluke.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Some find this goal spurious in a society that is so intensely polarized.
    — Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

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