The e-mail you describe has been revealed to be spurious.
President Bush recently appealed to China to stop the prosecutions of Chinese-Americans on what appear to many in the United States to be spurious charges of espionage.
If it's No -- or even a Yes but one that turns out to be spurious -- then there must be another mind-set.
Inevitably, most turn out to be spurious nonsense – was the Fresh Prince dead all along?; did Jessica Fletcher actually murder hundreds of people to further her writing career?
The call turned out to be spurious, and a melee ensued in which someone grabbed Officer Cardillo's gun and shot him; he died six days later.
The claim by Clonaid to have cloned a human is likely to be spurious, but if it is not, there should be concern that the child will be mentally retarded or mentally ill, or both.
He was personally blamed for the austerity measures and brought to trial on what turned out to be spurious charges relating to how he handled sensitive files about Greek taxpayers.
They're both artists: I find the largely Soviet style and text they'd chosen for the choreography to be spurious and occasionally anti-musical, yet they made its slow drama among the most compelling items on the program.
The temptation to use these surveys to make much more precise forecasts of how votes might turn into seats proved too great for us all, but the new precision proved to be spurious.
But in contrast to Democritus, who had followed the deductive route of the intellect, considering the knowledge of the senses to be spurious, Epicurus, following an inductive route, assigned truth to sensation and reduced the intellect to it.
I found 13 (and I'm not counting the commas after each "Whereas" or the colon at the end, which I take to be spurious artefacts rather than actual mistakes of usage).
