Sentence examples for spurious scare from inspiring English sources
Some years back, in the light of a few (largely spurious) scare stories, manufacturers removed it and replaced it with "natural" alternatives.
No serious foreign intervention against the regime was expected, though a spurious war scare with France as the major aggressor was cooked up in 1927.
A nationwide campaign to equate wine with hard liquor (A drink is a drink is a drink), warning labels, a mostly spurious sulfite scare and overdue but tough drunk-driving laws all took their toll.
If too many people do this, the herd immunity crumbles and the whole population stands at risk – as seemed to be happening during the scare over the (spurious) link of the MMR vaccine to autism.
The use of a malware injection into these devices remotely enabled them to send spurious requests simultaneously to the DNS services resulting in a massive Internet scare DDOS failure of services.
Unfortunately, they are spurious.
Both pretexts are spurious.
BOGUS: counterfeit, spurious, sham.
"Overwroughtness in spurious form".
