Sentence examples for spurious premise from inspiring English sources

This perfect surface is utterly seductive, and so it made me suspicious (my aesthetics tend toward the puritanical), as did the immobility of the Drapers' faces and emotional lives, and the clumsy flashbacks, and the spurious premise of an altered identity, which tried to stand in for the main character's lack of depth.

The premise is spurious — if you want to know what's in the chicken, all you really have to do is send a leg of it over to Abby's lab on "NCIS" — but Mr. Wilbur, who calls himself a food hacker, has great fun spinning it out.

The premise of that new Animal Planet special is to decide, through a series of spurious competitions and what look like amateur videos, which is the superior pet, but the supposed cat-dog rivalry underlying the show is a fabrication.

How spurious.

His logic is spurious.

Unfortunately, they are spurious.

Both pretexts are spurious.

BOGUS: counterfeit, spurious, sham.

"Overwroughtness in spurious form".

But this is spurious.

This argument is spurious.