Sentence examples for spurious question from inspiring English sources

This was not an entirely spurious question.

Well, BBC3, they'll be having what is known as "a trial" to determine this at some point in the future – and prior to that, you and your speculative cash-in programming and spurious question mark are a rubbernecking irrelevance.

All the same, it's not spurious to raise the question of synthetic life.

I called them Dickensian, mocked their poor service, questioned their spurious excuses for tardiness—I gave them the sort of verbal seeing-to that only myself and a disgruntled racist colonel in an inner city youth center could muster.

I called them Dickensian, mocked their poor service, questioned their spurious excuses for tardiness – I gave them the sort of verbal seeing-to that only myself and a disgruntled racist colonel in an inner city youth centre could muster.

What this means in practical terms is that even though hated, poor, and likely to die at any second, I sometimes get to ask cool people cool questions for spurious features like this one and not have them immediately tell me to fuck off.

With Edward Said he co-edited Blaming The Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question, now reissued by Verso.

With hundreds of thousands of food-bank users in Britain, and 160 million malnourished children across the world, the question might seem spurious.

However, since he thinks he has "dissolved" Candlish's problem by appeal to the indiscernibility of identicals, Beall is inclined to regard the question as a spurious one and the answer as unnecessary.

As Kripke has insisted, it seems spurious to suggest that the question how we know which individual we are referring to when we make such a claim can be answered only by invoking a criterion of transworld identity.

For Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was imprisoned in Iran for 544 days on spurious charges of espionage, that question is complicated.