Sentence examples for were spurious from inspiring English sources
adjective
False, not authentic, not genuine
It later transpired that their claims were spurious.
He held that the phenomena produced by professed mediums of various kinds, hypnotics, mesmerists and fakirs all were spurious.
His successor as editor of The Wiccan, Leonora James, was intrigued by Liddell's claims and investigated the original records pertaining to Pickingill's life, however by the 1980s she had concluded that Liddell's claims were spurious.
Pausanias reports, however, that the Boeotians living around Mount Helicon during his day believed that the only genuine Hesiodic poem was the Works and Days and that even the first 10 lines of that poem (the so-called "hymn to Zeus") were spurious.
This study, which obtained 162 million amino acids from 323 million bp of sequence, shows only 50% of these pORFs were spurious.
We have omitted the carnivores from our analysis of Ph20 as the sequences were spurious.
Unfortunately, they are spurious.
Both pretexts are spurious.
The reasons offered are spurious.
The trend could also be spurious.
