Meanings of spurious grounds in English

They are excluding people on spurious grounds, he said.

An Indonesian lawyer says the police continue to make mass arrests on spurious grounds at West Papuan rallies.

Of those few friends invited, several declined on spurious grounds, not wanting to be seen on the losing side.

It is also wasting taxpayers' money by refusing people on patently spurious grounds, leading to costly and unnecessary appeals.

He called that chamber "Shangri-La." A term which he also refused to explain on the same spurious grounds.

It's just 150 years since the US invaded Mexico on spurious grounds and ended up swallowing Texas, California and New Mexico.

Fraud has been committed upon them by tenants accessing their bank accounts, blackmail has been tried on spurious grounds of sexual harassment.

He'd been absent from the Casa del Cinema when the killing took place on highly spurious grounds, a call of a personal nature.

Within the public service, an embedded culture regards such an admission as unacceptable, on the spurious grounds of "protecting the public purse".