spuriousadjective
uk/ˈspjʊə.ri.əs/us/ˈspjʊr.i.əs/false and not what it appears to be, or (of reasons and judgments) based on something that has not been correctly understood and therefore false:
Some of the arguments in favour of shutting the factory are questionable and others downright spurious.
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Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- flawed
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- impropriety
- invalid 1
- irregular
- mis-
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
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