In a sentence
Six example sentences with spurious, each labelled with its topic.
The auction house withdrew the drawing after tests showed a spurious signature added at least a century after the sketch.
Art
The sensor sent spurious readings every time the freezer compressor started, and nobody trusted the log for weeks afterwards.
Technology
A spurious leaked patch note spread across the forums for days before the developers confirmed nobody on staff wrote it.
Gaming
The link between ice cream sales and sunburn is spurious; both simply rise in summer, and neither causes the other.
Science
The auditors flagged a dozen spurious invoices from a supplier whose address turned out to be an empty parking lot.
Finance
The judge dismissed the spurious claim once it emerged that the signed contract had been drafted after the dispute began.
Law
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