Sentence examples for spurious about from inspiring English sources

By E. B. White The New Yorker, November 9 , 1935P. 11 There is something faintly spurious about all modern pioneering, which we suppose is inevitable.

The New Yorker, November 9 , 1935P. 11 There is something faintly spurious about all modern pioneering, which we suppose is inevitable.

"I hear the word vexatious and spurious bandied about but, to date, there have been 326 settled cases and the government has paid out £20m," he told Radio 4's Today programme.

The giant ginger cat, Sir Tom's ironic observer of history, will appear in Moscow too, Mr Borodin says, although the image perplexed some London theatregoers.Sir Tom also refuses to offer his work as a commentary on contemporary Russia: "One must be careful about becoming a completely spurious expert about any place that has an airport".

Such studies can be prone to false positives through spurious associations brought about by population structure, although there are statistical means to control for these effects (Tian et al. 2008).

Last month, President Obama suggested that Trump — who, on the evidence of his debate performances, seems almost constitutionally unable to look at a black person without spiralling into spurious fearmongering about inner-city blight — knew less about the history of the African-American experience than the average third grader.

Regrettably I don't have the disposable income to go on all the holidays I've written about here, but that doesn't mean I can't make spurious generalisations about them based on little more than personal prejudice and profile pictures, does it?

Spurious rules about when to applaud are relaxed.

They could no longer cling to spurious claims about how education corrupts".

Mr. Cheney justifies this vacuum of accountability by spurious qualms about privacy in the West Wing.

The practice also leads investors to draw spurious conclusions about their fund managers' performance.