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spurious
adjective
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False, counterfeit, or not genuinely what it claims to be.
The collector discovered that the signature was spurious.
Dictionary practice example.
The theater's fictional mystery script included a charade in which two characters staged a supposedly spontaneous discovery that they had planned together. Their spurious claim of finding a lost collector's note depended on a counterfeit document made to imitate the collector's handwriting.
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