Meaning & use
Spuriously
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In a way that is not genuine, authentic, or based on sound reasoning.
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The report spuriously claimed the two events were causally connected.
He spuriously attributed the quote to a famous philosopher who never said it.
A note on using this word
Common in academic and scientific writing to describe correlations or claims that appear valid but are not.
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genuinelyauthentically
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