This is worse than spurious, it is sentimental.
If Lars Iyer hadn't already written Spurious, it would be possible to call his second novel a unique event.
Even if the correlation were not spurious, it would be difficult to know which way causation ran.
My problem with the album isn't the idea of opening up classical music to vivid new interpretations – however justified, ancient, or historically spurious – it is that the album itself doesn't at all live up to the claims made for it.
Your contention that European soccer exports better than American sports is true, but the connection to competition levels is spurious; it is because the main American sports are not, and never have been, international sports on the magnitude of soccer, tennis or golf.
"The suit goes beyond spurious; it's just frivolous," Mr. Fields said.
The notion that personal friendships between strongmen produce stability is spurious: it depends on interpersonal chemistry over institutional agreements - and the latter are far more durable.
But the evidence against 50-year-old Tommy Wall was so spurious it was scrubbed from public record after last month's exoneration.
