Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Illegitimacy; the state of being bastard, or not of legitimate birth: as, spuriousness of issue.
- noun The state or quality of being spurious, counterfeit, false, or not genuine: as, the spuriousness of drugs, of coin, or of writings.
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- noun The property of being
spurious .
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- noun state of lacking genuineness
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Examples
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The first person to detect his spuriousness was a little child playing in the arched gateway of one of the walled buildings.
Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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I have heard a clever critic and antiquarian declare that he is not very fond of Philae; that he feels a certain "spuriousness" in the temple due to the mingling of Greek with Egyptian influences.
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Yet at the end of the day, the loss suffered by Russia and China as a result of the Arab Spring will not be limited to people's resentment of their stances, which reveal the spuriousness of the claim that the major figures of communism, past and present, have placed peoples first on their list of priorities.
Raghida Dergham: The International 'Defiant' Camp and the Questions of Libya and Syria Raghida Dergham 2011
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Yet at the end of the day, the loss suffered by Russia and China as a result of the Arab Spring will not be limited to people's resentment of their stances, which reveal the spuriousness of the claim that the major figures of communism, past and present, have placed peoples first on their list of priorities.
Raghida Dergham: The International 'Defiant' Camp and the Questions of Libya and Syria Raghida Dergham 2011
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Do we remove the creepiness by revealing its spuriousness or make it all the more disturbing because it is entirely irrational?
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Do we remove the creepiness by revealing its spuriousness or make it all the more disturbing because it is entirely irrational?
Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008
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They do, merely adding more spin to distract from their essential spuriousness.
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Yapp's introduction reveals the autobiographical spuriousness of vol. II.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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See S.M. Khan, vol. II, p. 23, for Sultan Muhammad Khan's role in bringing Pyne to Kabul, and Yapp's introduction in vol. I, p. xvii, for the autobiographical spuriousness of volume two of this text.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Unfortunately -- aside from just the spuriousness of Clinton's invective itself -- this reinforces the perception of duplicitousness and double-talk.
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