not being what it purports to be; false or fake
假的;伪造的
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separating authentic and spurious claims .区别真实和虚假的要求。
(of a line of reasoning)apparently but not actually valid
(推理方法)貌似真实的,站不住脚的
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this spurious reasoning results in nonsense .这种站不住脚的推理到头来都是废话。
〈古〉 (后代)私生的。
"late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘born out of wedlock’): from Latin