spuriously

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  • At ten, evading the man who was his owner--spuriously charming, as Carem had learned to be, they all trusted him--he made off with traders. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
  • The opening lines of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities are often quoted, probably spuriously much of the time, but just this once I feel like recalling them. 2008 was both the best of times and the worst of times. —  Robby Goes to Charlottesville
  • I think lumping them in with spuriously advertised shampoos and food pads isn't really fair - people have been using herbs as medicines for hundreds and maybe even thousands of years whereas commercial products are a whole other category. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • As neither university administration responded to student calls for a statement condemning Israel's indiscriminate civilian killings and the bombing of the Islamic University in Gaza, it is evident that they are simply unwilling to engage in the same human rights and democratic discourse they spuriously allege the IAW poster is violating. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
  • The only funny-accented man to ever defraud strangers with dodgy property deals spuriously linked to the Catholic church - —  Hecklerspray
 

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