Entry Word: spurious

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 being such in appearance only and made or manufactured with the intention of committing fraud <a spurious Picasso painting that wouldnʼt have fooled an art expert for a second> — see counterfeit
2 lacking in natural or spontaneous quality <claimed that the governorʼs election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks> — see artificial 1