Many people want to believe the spurious claim that you can get rich quickly without hard work. From LearnThat.org.
The dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A spurious work of art. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A novel on more positive, constructive lines, and not emotionally spurious, is at present very difficult to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Whale] Reference
The others, which are concentric, are called the spurious grain. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
What are now known as spurious gospels were written long after Luke wrote his. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
These degenerate follicles have been termed spurious corpora lutea, or atretic vesicles. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
Another of my questions was about the so-called spurious books; had he written them or not?. From Wordnik.com. [XI. English Literature in Our Universities (II)] Reference
Another of my questions was about the so-called spurious lines; had he written them, or not?. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
The “Rubin-Ford effect” has been called spurious by some and well-established by others. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Cooper Rubin.] Reference
Now if Mann is saying BECAUSE they have high RE they have no chance of being spurious, that is the flawed argument. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Review of Bürger and Cubasch « Climate Audit] Reference
I think usually when we have what is called spurious correlation we assume that it will disappear when later data comes in. From Wordnik.com. [Juckes – Meet the Durbin-Watson Statistic « Climate Audit] Reference
Tsvangirai and that the charges against him are "spurious". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
You accused me of posting up "spurious" statistical analyses. From Wordnik.com. [Earth's climate crashes in 2013 « Climate Audit] Reference
They also demanded the dropping of "spurious" charges against. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The MEPs also demanded that "spurious" treason charges against. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Are they saying it's because they don't want to be involved in this kind of spurious campaigning?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008] Reference
This is a concrete instance of the kind of spurious precedent that I have already referred to. manners. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The ANC and its alliance partners came out strongly in Zuma's defence, describing Pityana's statements as "spurious" and. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Positive significance in such cases in the old-fashioned kind of spurious correlation: correlation that is simply coincidental. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson on Yamal Substitution « Climate Audit] Reference
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe described Pityana's statements as "spurious" and a reflection of "intellectual bankruptcy". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Meanwhile a former health MEC has lashed out at the government for creating "spurious" obstacles to introducing nevirapine at hospitals. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Earlier, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe described Pityana's statements as "spurious" and a reflection of "intellectual bankruptcy". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
There is also a third nature — that of space, which is indestructible, and is perceived by a kind of spurious reason without the help of sense. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
Edelman does indeed speak with "fierce honesty," but the kind of spurious "evenhandedness" attributed to him by Davies is altogether foreign to him. From Wordnik.com. [Poles and Jews: An Exchange] Reference
Tsvangirai's lawyer George Bizos said the latest allegations were "spurious" and intended to keep Tsvangirai in custody in the wake of last week's opposition protests. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin echoed these sentiments and also slammed the media for its "spurious" and "really quite absurd" allegations regarding the arms deal. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It would also depend on whether the opposition had in fact struck some kind of spurious deal with Zymyanin -- perhaps for his life -- and got him to talk before they killed him. From Wordnik.com. [Quiller Meridian]
"Marcus Livius, there are just too many of these so-called spurious citizens!. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Plus, it's kind of spurious to imply that a good looking man is more likely to be abusive. From Wordnik.com. [FlickFilosopher.com] Reference
We could not, however, properly speak of the latter as any more "spurious" or "pseudo" than the former. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
But the legitimacy Britain conveyed by implication was entirely spurious, meaning not genuine, false, a sham. From Wordnik.com. [Salem-News.com] Reference
The lassitude which is a kind of spurious resignation poisons courage, or quenches it as water quenches fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Silence] Reference
However managing director of Cape Town publishing firm Paragon, Goolam Allie, said on Thursday that the claim was "spurious". From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News]
However, An Taisce heritage officer Ian Lumley branded the complaints as "spurious" and pointed to the organisation's opposition to developments by both Tesco and Indaver. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
He told London's Cass Business School that the link between rising greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures is "spurious", adding, "The greenhouse effect is an illusion.". From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
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