spuriously

• “Moreover, her dating of the subdivision of Xikwembu at the moment of the original Xivuri occupation of ka Mudaka stakes a firm foundational claim for her own lineage by erasing any role the Portuguese, Gaza rulers, or intervening Xivuri chiefs may have played in spuriously elevating it to power.”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

• “Just because you risk being found spuriously guilty by association, it does not follow that you have a stake in refuting the guilt of those (false) associates, anymore than libertarians need either defend McVeigh or try to claim he was not a libertarian.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements

• “And this is now the second time on VC that a post has claimed, spuriously, that he thinks the state lawsuits havemerit.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association

• “The name of Idaho was spuriously ascribed to the Shoshone language, meaning, it was claimed, the sun comes from the mountains.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “Yet the EPI study attempts to compare them, finding, spuriously, that public sector J.D.'s and M.D.'s are getting the shaft as compared to private-sector ones.”

  The Washington Post: On Wisconsin, again

• “When they were going after the salaries and bonuses, I thought the Feds were being spuriously regulative.”

  oversight Easter egg?

• “I think they were using tip counts as an assessment of how attractive the (male) clients were finding them, and inferring spuriously whether this spoke to the existence of women being in ‘heat’ or otherwise.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Because the ladies have been relatively well behaved…

• “They have a very good reputation for not denying coverage spuriously just to save money. jeff Says:”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Revenue Deadlock

• “They can write whatever nonsensical, reactionary, undiplomatic and spuriously reasoned critique they want.”

  There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism

• “To condemn the hero in this story for his origins and not judge based on his actions is your own complete misinterpretation as much as spuriously questioning any similar, basic story "why was the HERO so special and no-one else"?!”

  Scott Mendelson: Avatar's Best Moment (Hint - It Has Nothing to Do With 3D Special Effects)

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