Sentence examples for spurious character from inspiring English sources

Otherwise, he said: "There's not a scrap of proof, apart from the word of one very spurious character.

When porcelain came up, bidders seemed possessed with a rage to buy, even when the spurious character of the wares was made clear in the catalog.

The scientific examination of a forged document may demonstrate its spurious character by showing that the parchment, paper, or ink cannot belong to the period to which they pretend.

The spurious character of the Protocols was first revealed in 1921 by Philip Graves of The Times (London), who demonstrated their obvious resemblance to a satire by the French lawyer Maurice Joly on Napoleon III published in 1864 and entitled Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ("Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu").

The main lesson of this match is that no side, let alone England, can afford to deprive themselves of their most talented performers on largely spurious suspicions of character failings or, worse still, of not fitting in.

Refreshingly, Ms. Ivey does not try to layer a spurious charm on the character; she acknowledges the wearying attributes that so get under Tom's skin.

That's important, because scientists determine evolutionary relationships by comparing such features, or characters, and spurious connections can lead them astray.

For example, the removal of the control region, the putative source of character conflict, produced spurious results with inconsistencies among and within topologies from parsimony and Bayesian analyses.

For example, the removal of the control region, the putative source of character conflict, produced spurious results with inconsistencies among and within topologies from parsimony and Bayesian analyses, and these inconsistencies were not trivial.

Some have likened his spurious grin to that of Friends character Chandler Bing, who famously struggled to smile, while others have gone for a most obvious villain, The Demon Headmaster, from the Nineties children's television show.

This should generally reduce spurious results caused by sampling few characters and by incongruence between gene and species trees.