Spurious Synonyms and Antonyms

spyo͝orē-əs
Containing fundamental errors in reasoning
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fallacious
  2. false
  3. illogical
  4. invalid
  5. sophistic
  6. specious
  7. unsound
Said of things
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. apocryphal
  2. deceptive
Born to parents who are not married to each other
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. misbegotten
  2. baseborn
  3. bastard
  4. illegitimate
  5. bastardly
  6. natural
  7. unlawful
  8. misbegot

Words Related to Spurious

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Spurious Sentence Examples

  • But even in its spurious condition the book had been recognized as remarkable and almost unique.

  • The prime exponent of the spurious religion is Simon Magus.

  • We have now to consider the so-called spurious bows which are sometimes seen at the inner edge of the primary and at the outer edge of the secondary bow.

  • The eighth now extant is really an incomplete treatise on logic. Some critics have rejected this book as spurious, since its matter is so different from that of the rest.

  • Many have been cut down for entirely spurious reasons.

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