Sentence examples for a sort of spurious from inspiring English sources

As this season has progressed, it has gotten darker and rapier, and there's no sign that the darkness and rapiness has any point other than as splaff-bait and as a sort of spurious 'edge'-credential.

A: Sort of.

It gives the show license to indulge in all sorts of spurious revelations and disingenuous teasers, and it relieves the audience of the responsibility of taking any of it seriously.

And yet there's always been a nativist strain in American politics, whose proponents, especially in the early twentieth century, argued that somehow the gene pool was diminished by immigration, and used all sorts of spurious human-measurement studies to back up their case.

It is really disappointing when we have the knowledge, when we have the expertise, when we have the data to show that we need to act more promptly and more decisively, that they are fudging it and fluffing it on all sorts of spurious grounds.

But if it sends the intrepid host into a tailspin for fear of receiving some sort of spurious score at the end of an evening of ill-judged smears and claggy chocolate fondants, then I'm not sure how good a thing that is.

Where the list was once the sausage meat in the stuffing of the December special issues, when weary editorial staff would rack their brains to remember what happened in February, and some bloke who happened to be in when the editor called was tasked with ranking a load of films you'd already forgotten into some sort of spurious top 10.

But despite the gladiatorial combat at the programme's core, trying too hard to win was frowned upon.There have been some spurious claims that "Big Brother" is a sort of psychological experiment: a troupe of psychologists appeared once a week to offer some low-brow analysis of the participants' behaviour.

"A sort of blank".

"A sort of dream.

A sort of aspic.