spurious

spurious
    adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious
           inferences" [syn: {specious}, {spurious}]
    2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
       away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
       [syn: {bastardly}, {misbegot}, {misbegotten}, {spurious}]
    3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn:
       {inauthentic}, {unauthentic}, {spurious}]
    

Spurious \Spu"ri*ous\ (sp[=u]"r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.]
   1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source
      pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate.
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   2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious
      firstborn." --Milton.
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   {Spurious primary}, or {Spurious quill} (Zool.), the first,
      or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced
      in size, as in certain singing birds.

   {Spurious wing} (Zool.), the bastard wing, or alula.
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   Syn: Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious;
        fictitious; bastard.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Spu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. --
        {Spu"ri*ous*ness}, n.
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79 Moby Thesaurus words for "spurious":
      affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, baseborn, bastard,
      bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, contrived, counterfeit,
      counterfeited, deceitful, distorted, dressed up, dummy,
      embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false,
      falsified, fatherless, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged,
      fraudulent, garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation,
      inauthentic, junky, make-believe, man-made, meretricious,
      misbegotten, miscited, miscreated, misquoted, misreported,
      misstated, mock, natural, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretend,
      pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy,
      simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, substitute,
      supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, twisted,
      unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unnatural,
      unreal, unreliable, warped