SPURIOUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SPURIOUS, such as:
1. But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
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Meanings and Examples of SPURIOUS
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spurious
a. false; counterfeit; forged; illogical
Classic Sentence:
1 But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
2 He was reading one of the latest scientific-religious books: he had a streak of a spurious sort of religion in him, and was egocentrically concerned with the future of his own ego.
3 This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
4 That institution is reserved for men like Kennicott who, after devoting fifty years to "putting aside a stake," incontinently invest the stake in spurious oil-stocks.
5 The resonant voice of the Hungarian was about to prevail in ridicule of the spurious lutes of the romantic painters when Segouin shepherded his party into politics.
Example Sentence:
1 Natasha's claim to be the lost heir of the Romanoffs was spurious: the only thing Russian about her was the vodka she drank!.