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Meanings of as spurious in English

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Usage of as spurious in English
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Two of the seven CDs are devoted to works now regarded as spurious.
The Irish Times
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When the complaint was revealed Mr Joyce dismissed it as spurious and defamatory.
News.com.au
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And why, Florry, does it peculiarly mark it as spurious?
Inez: A Tale of the Alamo
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The gale had ministered to a heroism as spurious as its own pretence of terror.
Lord Jim
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The speech addressed "To his soldiers in Spain," Augustus considers likewise as spurious.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar
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Each religion regards all the other religions as spurious.
God and My Neighbour
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They want a great experience, but don't want to be treated as spurious "customers".
The Guardian
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He regarded the claim that opening on Easter Sunday would offend Irish religious sensitivities as spurious.
The Irish Times
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We insist that the attempt to explain away every inconsistency as spurious is a sorry refuge.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus
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But although he was profoundly affected, his infatuation was as spurious as her pretense of one.
Dangerous Days
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The reasons for opposing gay marriage, they say, are just as spurious as those of the racists were.
The Irish Times
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Rather he will cast aside historical records as spurious, and insist that all genuine poets have been beautiful.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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Their devotional feelings blinded their critical judgment; and they never ventured to put aside a modern addition as spurious.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
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Both, in fact, have been branded as spurious, the latter from times as early as those of the scholia.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Others dismiss such claims as spurious and say that banks and industry players should face equal regulation for equal opportunity.
Reuters
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The passage referring to Jesus in his "Jewish Antiquities" has been considered as spurious even by conservative scholars.
The Necessity of Atheism
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