not being what it purports to be; false or fake 假的;伪造的 separating authentic and spurious claims. 区别真实和虚假的言论。 ■(of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid (推理方法)貌似真实的,站不住脚的 this spurious reasoning results in nonsense. 这种站不住脚的推理到头来都是废话。 ■(archaic)(of offspring) illegitimate (古)(后代)私生的
派生 spuriously adverb spuriousness noun 语源
late 16th cent. (in the sense 'born out of wedlock'): from Latin spurius 'false' + -ous