spuriouslyadv.
/ˈspjʊərɪəsli/, /ˈspjɔːrɪəsli/, U.S. /ˈspjʊriəsli/ a. In a bastard or spurious manner; with pretence or simulation; falsely.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [adverb] > by substitution
subdititiously1622
spuriously1755
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adverb] > illegitimately
unlawfullya1425
bastardlike1563
spuriously1755
on the wrong side of the blanket1771
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adverb]
bastardly1566
unauthentically1602
adulterately1604
imitably1616
suppositiously1660
surreptitiously1680
spuriously1845
inauthentically1965
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Bastardly In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.
a1818 in Todd s.v. The deposition..confessing that the child had been spuriously passed upon Virginius for his own.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 83 How faith and fancy, in the mind of man, Have spuriously mingled.
1879 A. Trollope in 19th Cent. Jan. 39 She who is made interesting by exhibition of bold passion [will] teach others to be spuriously passionate.
b. spec. in Botany.
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1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 83 In Amelanchier the simple ovaria are spuriously 2-celled.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 547 Ovary inferior..1-celled, or spuriously 3-celled.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 133 The floral receptacle, which develops around, and adnate to the carpels, so that they become united into a spuriously syncarpous pistil.
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