spurious
[adjective]
Synonyms: false, artificial, bogus, fake, phoney or phony (informal), pretended, sham, specious, unauthentic

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Antonyms: authentic
Contrasted words: actual, real, true, bona fide, genuine, veritable
Related Idioms: not what (or all) it's cracked up to be
Related Words: bogus, counterfeit, fake, phony, pseudo, sham, false, unreal, make-believe, pretend, pretended

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English Thesaurus: false, fake, forged, counterfeit, imitation, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

spu‧ri‧ous /ˈspjʊəriəs $ ˈspjʊr-/ adjective
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Late Latin; Origin: spurius, from Latin (noun), 'child of unmarried parents']

1. a spurious statement, argument etc is not based on facts or good thinking and is likely to be incorrect:
He demolished the Opposition’s spurious arguments.

2. insincere:
spurious sympathy
—spuriously adverb
—spuriousness noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

false not real, but intended to seem real and deceive people:
He uses a false name.
fake made to look or seem like something else, especially something worth a lot more money:
fake fur
a fake Rolex watch
fake designer goods
a fake $100 bill
forged a forged official document or bank note has been illegally made to look like a real one:
a forged passport
a forged £50 note
counterfeit /ˈkaʊntəfɪt $ -tər-/ counterfeit money or goods have been illegally made to look exactly like something else:
How do you detect counterfeit currency?
counterfeit drugs
imitation made to look real – used especially about guns, bombs etc or about materials:
The two men used an imitation firearm to carry out the robbery.
imitation leather/silk/silver
phoney/phony /ˈfəʊni $ ˈfoʊ-/ disapproving informal false – used when you think someone is deliberately trying to deceive people:
She put on a phoney New York accent.
The doctors were accused of supplying phoney medical certificates.
There’s something phoney about him.
phony advertisements
spurious /ˈspjʊəriəs $ ˈspjʊr-/ false and giving a wrong impression about someone or something:
spurious claims
That’s a spurious argument.
The company was trying to get some spurious respectability by using our name.

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