spurious
adjective /ˈspjʊəriəs/
/ˈspjʊriəs/
- false, although seeming to be real or true
- He had managed to create the entirely spurious impression that the company was thriving.
- based on false ideas or ways of thinking
- a spurious argument
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘born out of wedlock’): from Latin spurius ‘false’ + -ous.