Sentence examples for spurious weapon from inspiring English sources
Irwin, meanwhile, in what amounts to a compelling but vitriolic critique on Edward Said's Orientalism - a "wicked" work of "malignant charlatanry" - issues a clarion call for a new scholarly tradition which will wrest Orientalism back from those who use it, as he claims Said did, as a spurious weapon against western imperialism.
All that changed when some of the most incompetent imperialists in history, in the administration of the second President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, used utterly spurious excuses about non-existent links to 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction to launch Gulf War II.
The assertion that somehow advocating a ban on the deadliest weapons ever created would distract from real disarmament is spurious and misleading.
Sometimes these ideas are pointedly anachronistic, as when the book mentions "the spurious argument that Polk was obliged to attack Mexico before Mexico turned its weapons against the United States".
Unfortunately, they are spurious.
Both pretexts are spurious.
"Overwroughtness in spurious form".
This argument is spurious.
