How to Use spurious in a Sentence

spurious

adjective

• But, alas, spurious balance dumps dung in the well even here.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2016
• Well, of course, Democrats laughed, laughed all of this off as spurious.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2018
• There are other spurious reasons for dodging the flu shot.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2020
• Some will be giving you much insight, but many will be spurious.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
• Those who persevere are harassed by the police or charged with spurious crimes.
  — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• 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
• But there are reasons to think that causal claims inferred from the correlation are spurious.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
• A number of prominent players skipped the game for what appeared to be spurious reasons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• But none of that has stopped Trump from continuing to proclaim his spurious gospel of fraud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• The comment drew lots of users to Google, curious about one thing: what does spurious mean?
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• There was no retraction or even correction, just a shift to a new line of spurious attack.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
• Democracy at home is starved to seek a spurious democracy abroad.
  — Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
• Gunn does often go out of his way to debunk spurious rumors from questionable sources.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 11 Oct. 2021
• But adjustments to the telescope’s main lens through the years had created spurious data.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• 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 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
• The paper makes a number of arguments in favor of the connection being spurious.
  — 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
• Hundreds of thousands have been sentenced to prison on what relatives often claim are spurious charges.
  — Dake Kang, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
• This is about the business sector and the holders of the spurious debt are mutual funds, insurance companies and hedge funds.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• 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
• These tools can take us back to the phrenological past, when spurious claims were used to support existing systems of power.
  — Kate Crawford, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
• Both cases circle a running theme: panicked and spurious stories that get youth culture very wrong.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Court after court threw out Trump's spurious claims of election fraud after his defeat to Biden.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 4 May 2021
• 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
• Huge machines, burning a lot of fossil fuels, and on trips that many see as unnecessary or spurious.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• This spurious charge has circulated for 50 years in search of proof.
  — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• 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
• It’s been undermined by spurious and outright false claims of widespread voter fraud and by acts of voter suppression.
  — Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024