SPURIOUS
\spjˈʊɹɪəs], \spjˈʊɹɪəs], \s_p_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]\
Definitions of SPURIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
By Princeton University
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plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Not genuine; counterfeit; as, spurious coin; false.
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Spuriously.
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Spuriousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Spuriously.
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Spuriousness.
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Illegitimate: bastard: not genuine: false.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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