The phrase "a spurious notion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an idea or belief that is false or misleading, often in a critical context.
Example: "The article challenges a spurious notion of equality that ignores systemic inequalities."
Alternatives: "a false idea of" or "a misleading concept of".
The August closing date had been something of a spurious notion ever since "Newsies" - about a group of New York City newspaper hawkers on strike against a media baron at the turn of the 20th century - started setting box-office records in April at the Nederlander Theater.
Many people are sceptical about the idea of what I like to call "sexy addiction", thinking it a spurious notion, invented primarily to help Hollywood film stars evade responsibility for their priapic excesses.
Charles and his friends like to portray themselves as the underdogs, as victims of a leftie conspiracy of inhumane modernism, but they couldn't be more well connected, and their polemics in favour of twee cottage architecture resonate strongly with a public taste for the picturesque and sentimental, and the spurious notion of What People Really Want.
Savage satire on British colonialism and the spurious notion of "Englishness".
But his rise poses a question: "How many Americans are stupid or unpleasant enough to vote for him?" His rhetoric is entirely based on spurious notions of strength, victory and a return to greatness, his specific ideas appeal almost exclusively to people's least creditable feelings.
Drake's win also showed audiences don't care about spurious notions of authenticity and realness – what counts is hooks, storytelling and talent, even if you're a middle-class former child actor from Toronto.
But while these spurious notions of human behaviour that informed the ex-cathedra statements of tenured economists stuck in my craw, it was their investiture as the sacred prognosticators of our collective destiny that finally convinced me they were false prophets.
Angela Merkel has promised legislation, based no doubt on her spurious notion that performance of the rite is a right.
Only flawed Western "logic" links turmoil among Muslims around the world to the spurious notion that a Muslim head scarf has "true meaning" in France.
And, sad to say, our own Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, pays lip service to this spurious notion.
