spuriously
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Definition(s):
- (adv) in a false and spurious manner
Usage(s):
- By the early '70s Morley's painting was largely about violence happening to a spuriously calm surface.
- Now, says Geophysicist Gary Latham of Columbia University, investigators think that the patterns may have been caused spuriously by the seismometer itself.
Quotes
- "This company wants those fireworks back so it can sell them, literally, before the Fourth of July," Blumenthal said. "We are in the midst of this pitched legal battle because this company, spuriously, is seeking to claim that Connecticut's...on Jul 2, 2008 By: Richard Blumenthal Source: Danbury News Times
- "It was judicial complicity with the executive," writes historian Ayesha Jalal, "that determined the outcome. Stretching the law of necessity to its outer limits and spuriously equating revolutionary legality with legitimacy," Chief...on Mar 16, 2007 By: Ayesha Jalal Source: Daily Times
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