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单词 spurious
释义 spu·ri·ous
\ˈspyu̇rēəs, -pyür- sometimes ÷ -pər.ē- or -pə.rē-\ adjective
Etymology: Latin & Late Latin; Late Latin spurius false, from Latin, of illegitimate birth, from spurius, n., bastard (often used as a praenomen)
1. : of illegitimate birth : bastard
 < her spurious firstborn — John Milton >
 < the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring — E.A.Freeman >
2.
 a. : outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine qualities : false, counterfeit
  < the true ring by which … a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction — Thomas Hardy >
  < the spurious mechanical substitutes for knowledge and experience now provided through … the motion picture — Lewis Mumford >
  < prone to attach a spurious novelty to the things of the moment simply because they pretend to be new — J.A.R.Pimlott >
  < first of the … dictators to sweep to spurious glory on the upthrust of human arms — Milton Bracker >
 b. : simulative in symptoms or development without being pathologically or morphologically genuine
  < spurious labor pains >
  < spurious species >
  < spurious fruit >
  < the effusion of lymph which gradually degenerates into his spurious bony deposit — Robert Chawner >
3.
 a. : of falsified or erroneously attributed origin or authorship : forged, inauthentic
  < the spurious lines and passages which scholars used to reject as contradicting the genuine parts of the story — T.A.Jones >
  < the only known picture … albeit a spurious one had been printed some years earlier — James Monaghan >
  < the regalia became the symbols of sovereignty over all the tribes … though their spurious nature was obvious — A.M.Young >
 b. : of a deceitful or fictitious nature or quality : fraudulent
  < one of the worst features of the religious decadence … was the craftiness of such spurious types of men — Edwin Benson >
  < a completely spurious witness — M.S.Mayer >
  < the spurious explanations of the astrologers — G.A.L.Sarton >
 c. : faulty in reasoning or conclusion : illogical, specious
  < spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality and prediction — Ethel Albert >
  < no spurious argument, no appeal to sentiment … can deceive the American people — F.D.Roosevelt >
  < incomplete statistical evidence leads to spurious correlations >
4. : marked by spuriousness or falseness
 < additions which he inserted … to give them a spurious authenticity, into the original manuscript — R.D.Altick >
5. : of an excrescent or superfluous character : undesirably intrusive : extraneous
 < the power output of a transmitter must be … free from spurious radiations — Radio Amateur's Handbk. >
 < designed … to operate so that spurious emissions and responses are completely eliminated — W.P.Corderman >
6. : irrelevantly inapplicable : lacking correspondence to reality : vaguely ambiguous : pseudo
 < if the terms of our discourse are incompatible or confused … then our alleged beliefs are not false, but spurious — Susanne K. Langer >
 < if, when he utters it, he is not talking about anything, then his use is not a genuine one, but a spurious — Morris Weity >
Synonyms: see counterfeit
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