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spurious
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synonyms: factitious, ersatz, commentitious, supposititious ???
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Definition:not trustworthy, not genuine; false
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it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones; but such knowledge is easily neutralised by the technique of doublethink.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make as good money!
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Once the searing effect of swallowing the stuff had passed, it did induce a certain spurious calmness.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Homer [explaining why stealing is sometimes ok]: Oh. Look at this way, when you had breakfast this morning, did you pay for it?
Lisa: No.
Homer: And did you pay for those clothes you're wearing?
Lisa: No, I didn't.
Homer: Well, run for the hills, Ma Barker! Before I call the Feds!
Lisa: Dad, I think that's pretty spurious.
Homer: Well, thank you, honey.
Fox. The Simpsons: Homver vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment
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a perfectly spurious and very racy report
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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who sought, by making the fewest possible movements, to preserve in her old age those lines, as of a Coysevox goddess, which had years ago charmed the young men of fashion and which spurious poets still celebrated in rhymed charades —
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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