Crossword-Solution: SPURIOUS 8 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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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
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
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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.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
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 Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
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.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
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.
Daisy Miller Henry James 2008

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.
Alan W. Watts The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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…
Walter Kaufmann
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…
Cordelia Fine Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, USA TODAY.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1997–2007).