How to Use spurious in a Sentence

spurious

adjective
  • But, alas, spurious balance dumps dung in the well even here.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2016
  • Well, of course, Democrats laughed, laughed all of this off as spurious.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • Some will be giving you much insight, but many will be spurious.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2013
  • Meanwhile, agents will be talking up their clients and spurious links made with all manner of players.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Those who persevere are harassed by the police or charged with spurious crimes.
    — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Other, more spurious claims — about the nature of cats themselves — may give readers pause.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • There was no retraction or even correction, just a shift to a new line of spurious attack.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 28 Apr. 2020
  • And what about people who falsely tell the app they were infected, just to set off waves of spurious warnings?
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 14 May 2021
  • This spurious charge has circulated for 50 years in search of proof.
    — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • But there are reasons to think that causal claims inferred from the correlation are spurious.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Claims of being able to nail down an exact date and time are spurious and carry with them a huge amount of uncertainty.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • A number of prominent players skipped the game for what appeared to be spurious reasons.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
  • But adjustments to the telescope’s main lens through the years had created spurious data.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The most negative and spurious viral videos are the ones that are leading to the most views for advertisers.
    — John Brandon, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Its purpose, though, is to give Mr Putin’s ploy an air of spurious legality.
    — The Economist, 10 Mar. 2020
  • To this point, the match had been defined by spurious shouts for handball rather than any Tottenham attacking play.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But the presidential election, no matter how spurious, is in three months, and Nadezhdin says someone has to speak up.
    — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • These arguments are spurious at best and are simply meant to distract from the greater issue (in fact, many current bus routes are already quite long).
    — baltimoresun.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Today, spurious depictions of South Africa as an anti-white hellscape swim in the same waters.
    — Time, 9 June 2025
  • But the Bail Project's experience gives the lie to the bail bond industry's spurious claims.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The simplest explanation, and the one the new papers argue for, is that the correlation was spurious in the first place.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
  • The publicity may be strained and the plots spurious, but in the ring there is no hiding from the reality of a jab, a cross, blood leaking from a swollen eye.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This is about the business sector and the holders of the spurious debt are mutual funds, insurance companies and hedge funds.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • All the spurious arguments against EVs will filter away when your neighbor has a cheaper, better car than you.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • The Danish researchers also took measures to ensure that the link between the gene and the disorder was not spurious.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 17 June 2019
  • Kennedy has spent the last two decades as one of the leading voices for the anti-vaccine movement, alleging a (spurious) link between vaccines and autism.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • To the contrary, courts are well-equipped to weed out spurious Establishment Clause ‘religions’ on grounds of common sense.
    — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Contrary to Goldberg’s spurious claim, the Prime Minister does not seek to preserve the status quo.
    — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2016
  • This is spurious and completely unfounded.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Many politicians and government employees learned from The Times that they had been targeted with spurious filings.
    — Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026

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