Crossword-Solution: SPURIOUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Spurious | a. | Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate. |
| Spurious | a. | Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “SPURIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Non genuine | 1 answer |
| Not legitimate | 2 answers |
| brummagem | 8 answers |
| sesquipedalian | 8 answers |
| Johnsonian | 8 answers |
| bluffing | 9 answers |
| Pseudo | 10 answers |
| hyperbolical | 10 answers |
| Not genuine | 18 answers |
| bastard | 19 answers |
| Ersatz | 23 answers |
| apocryphal | 26 answers |
| Illusive | 26 answers |
| specious | 28 answers |
| Expanded | 32 answers |
| Fallacious | 34 answers |
| forged | 35 answers |
| Unauthentic | 43 answers |
| Adulterate | 44 answers |
| fraudulent | 45 answers |
| disingenuous | 50 answers |
| Bogus | 50 answers |
| phoney | 54 answers |
| Unfounded | 55 answers |
| Counter-feit | 55 answers |
| ARTIFICIAL ___ | 65 answers |
| Incorrect | 66 answers |
| Deceptive | 82 answers |
| Sham | 84 answers |
| fake | 88 answers |
| False ___ | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPURIOUS (5)
Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort.
Listen to me as well as to them, and then judge if my acts be not more in accord with true Barsoomian chivalry and honor than those of these revengeful devotees of the spurious creeds from whose cruel bonds I have freed your planet.” “Silence!” roared the jeddak, leaping to his feet and laying his hand upon the hilt of his sword.
The fellow (gentleman, as he styled himself) can hardly have been other than a spurious interloper; for, instead of seeking office from the king or the royal governor, or urging his hereditary claim to Eastern lands, he bethought himself of no better avenue to wealth than by cutting a shop-door through the side of his ancestral residence.
Would you know the measure of the interval which separates them? Will you tell me? There appear to be three pleasures, one genuine and two spurious: now the transgression of the tyrant reaches a point beyond the spurious; he has run away from the region of law and reason, and taken up his abode with certain slave pleasures which are his satellites, and the measure of his inferiority can only be expressed in a figure.
Giovanelli had certainly a very pretty face; but Winterbourne felt a superior indignation at his own lovely fellow countrywoman’s not knowing the difference between a spurious gentleman and a real one.
Quotes with SPURIOUS (3)
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse to spurious alternatives. The lesser lights inform us that the alternative to Christianity is materialism, thus showing how little they have read, while the greater lights talk as if the alternative were bound to be a shallow and inane optimism. I don't believe that man will turn this earth into a bed of roses eith…
The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offer us unprecedented information about the structure and working of the brain. But don't forget that, once, wrapping a tape measure around the head was considered modern and sophisticated, and it's important not to fall into the sam…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1997–2007).