How to Use spurious in a Sentence

spurious

adjective

• Well, of course, Democrats laughed, laughed all of this off as spurious.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2018
• But, alas, spurious balance dumps dung in the well even here.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2016
• The comment drew lots of users to Google, curious about one thing: what does spurious mean?
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• My issue isn't with CRT, which is a movement that emerged in the 1970s to challenge the spurious notion that the law is impartial.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
• Some will be giving you much insight, but many will be spurious.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• But the Bail Project's experience gives the lie to the bail bond industry's spurious claims.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2023
• But none of that has stopped Trump from continuing to proclaim his spurious gospel of fraud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• And what about people who falsely tell the app they were infected, just to set off waves of spurious warnings?
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 14 May 2021
• This spurious charge has circulated for 50 years in search of proof.
  — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• There are other spurious reasons for dodging the flu shot.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2020
• How dare the Vikings fans besmirch our good names — what was left of them, anyway — with unfounded and spurious slanders.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• The simplest explanation, and the one the new papers argue for, is that the correlation was spurious in the first place.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
• Other, more spurious claims — about the nature of cats themselves — may give readers pause.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
• The Danish researchers also took measures to ensure that the link between the gene and the disorder was not spurious.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 17 June 2019
• The publicity may be strained and the plots spurious, but in the ring there is no hiding from the reality of a jab, a cross, blood leaking from a swollen eye.
  — Brady Brickner-Wood, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• There was no retraction or even correction, just a shift to a new line of spurious attack.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
• The world of food is no stranger to fake news: A banquet chef ran out of heavy cream, one spurious story goes, and invented mayonnaise.
  — Christopher Kimball, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
• Zippel wrote Tuesday night on X that the Jazz took Irving's side and that the team had cited a spurious policy to get the signs taken down.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Those who persevere are harassed by the police or charged with spurious crimes.
  — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• Court after court threw out Trump's spurious claims of election fraud after his defeat to Biden.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 May 2021
• China hopes France can at least hold a fair and level-headed stance, and not side with those spurious arguments.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• But there are reasons to think that causal claims inferred from the correlation are spurious.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• Its purpose, though, is to give Mr Putin’s ploy an air of spurious legality.
  — The Economist, 10 Mar. 2020
• But the presidential election, no matter how spurious, is in three months, and Nadezhdin says someone has to speak up.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Contrary to Goldberg’s spurious claim, the Prime Minister does not seek to preserve the status quo.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2016
• A number of prominent players skipped the game for what appeared to be spurious reasons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• Regardless of whether the accusations against Mr. Stringer and Mr. Adams prove spurious or damning, one thing is true, at least for now.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 13 May 2021
• Now, Pence is ending his tenure with an even bigger test of whether to support Trump’s spurious election claims.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
• Career prosecutors who pushed back against spurious criminal charges, for example, were fired or chose to resign.
  — Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• Those imprisoned include several innocent Americans detained on spurious charges, victims of the regime’s use of hostage taking as a tool of foreign policy.
  — Michael R. Pompeo, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024