Meaning & use
spurious
Not genuine, authentic, or logically sound; based on false or mistaken reasoning.
See it in a sentence
The lawyer dismissed the claim as spurious, since it lacked any real evidence.
Researchers found a spurious correlation between ice cream sales and drowning rates.
A note on using this word
In statistics, a 'spurious correlation' looks meaningful but is actually caused by an unrelated third factor.
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Words with an opposite meaning
genuineauthentic
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