spurious

separating authentic and spurious claims.

this spurious reasoning results in nonsense.

There are some spurious lines in this ancient poem, which were added later.

Electronic attack can deceive or desensitize enemy battle commanders through insertion of spurious radar tracks or blot out entire avenues of approach.

She is much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument. See also Synonyms at clever

He urged the rejection of what he called spurious nationalism.

Yeah. The " omniscience of the 2-10 spread that pervades market commentary is probably spurious" .

Within weeks of taking up the presidency, Duvalier had ordered his political opponents jailed on spurious charges.

Well, one to save battery, but two, so you don't get spurious inputs from your face into the touch screen.

They regarded spruce as a spurious spy.

But she had never seen the insect before, and recoiled from its spurious reverence.

You really need to know that there's not some spurious detail that's throwing things all off.

Anyone who tries to tell you that they know the future is just trying to own it, a spurious kind of manifest destiny.

But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque.

A spurious link between a brand and a health scare, even when baseless, can send stocks tumbling and PR teams scrambling.