Definition of Spurious

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Definition of Spurious
	Spurious Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. Related Definitions: Adulterate, As, False, From, Genuine, Issue, Legitimate, Not, Or, Pretended, Proceeding, Source, Spurious, The, True

Spurious Quotations

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John Le Carre

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
William Vickrey

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
Abraham Kuyper

Spurious Translations

spurious in Spanish is espurio

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