spurious

• But I advise you skip the two other spurious, and frankly curious, ingredients that also come as standard on the burger: hickory barbecue sauce and shredded cabbage. —  Serious Eats: New York
• Equally spurious is the supposed necessity of universalizing social insurance in order to secure majority support for programs that only a minority really needs. —  Claremont.org
• Barack Obama and his supporters rightfully claim he's been the subject of spurious, anonymous rumors about his patriotism, religion and race. —  theithacajournal.com -
• He told me also how he had succeeded with the amber; that it was all spurious, and was worth nothing. —  Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
• An unauthorised edition of the play was first published, in September of that year, by William Griffith, a bookseller in St. Dunstan's Churchyard; but nine years afterwards an authorised and "true copy" of the play was published by John Day, of Aldersgate, the title being then altered from "Gorboduc" (in which name the spurious edition had been issued) to "Ferrex and Porrex." —  Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

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