Crossword-Solution: SPURIOUSNESS 12 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

His later works show him implacable to the whole system of official values: the ignobility of fashionable life; the infamies of empire; the spuriousness of the church, the vain conceit of the professions; the meannesses and cruelties that go with great success; and every other pompous crime and lying institution of this world.

The first person to detect his spuriousness was a little child playing in the arched gateway of one of the walled buildings.

Even in Italy, though the majority of scholars have wished to ignore this critical onslaught, as they have done other earlier ones of the same kind, some voices have been raised to recognise the spuriousness of the document.

The aristocracy he defended, in spite of the political marriages by which it tried to secure breeding for itself, had its mind undertrained by silly schoolmasters and governesses, its character corrupted by gratuitous luxury, its self-respect adulterated to complete spuriousness by flattery and flunkeyism.

Shall we call it the spirit of Isis? 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.