Sentence examples for really spurious from inspiring English sources

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Are these cases really "spurious" or "vexatious"?

It's the curator's vision which is meant to lend some great kind of light and often it's a really spurious illumination of the work.

"It seemed really spurious".

However, in daily practice, measurements and device indications are linked or confounded and it is not really spurious to apply to indications the terms used for qualifying measurements.

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That is when Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky took to the Senate floor to deride Mr. McCain's opposition to his measure that would punish Egypt as "spurious and really, frankly, absurd," not the first time Mr. Paul has wielded verbal scythes toward his colleagues.

Hence, the correlation of lead concentration with small fragment score might be spurious and really due to the effect of the number of shot and large fragments already described.

However, that correlation is spurious and does not really reflect a cut in the total amount of credit that a firm has available.

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.

Whose claim to fame prior to this was that he sued trying to block Jerry Brown from becoming California attorney general in 2006 -- Brown won in a landslide -- on the spurious grounds that Brown wasn't really a lawyer.

Business lobbyists raised various spurious objections to the rule, but there really is no legitimate reason to deny shareholders fair elections to choose directors that would work for them instead of management.

What they really were about was attacking Jerry Brown, on the essentially spurious grounds that he is a big tax-and-spend liberal.

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