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• r  in a false and spurious manner
  the lawyer argued spuriously that his client knew nothing of the burglary

• Lopez Obrador contended that Calderon had been spuriously placed in power so he could loot Mexico's treasure trove of black gold, which provides the federal government with 40% of .
• With a spuriously funereal air, the Chicago Tribune published his political obituary: "There was nothing left of Harold, his presumptions or his platform.
• One reason why oathing gets overdone is that it is so inherently dramatic, even a form of fanaticism, a way of connecting (spuriously sometimes) to the Absolute.

News & Articles

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• There’s Actually No Such Thing As A 'Super Food'
  In the early 1990s, a cookbook called Superfoods appeared in the bookshops. It was co-written by the alternative medicine practitioner, Michael Van Straten, who is one of a handful of people said to have coined what has become one of the most spuriously bandied-about marketing terms of our times.
  Jan. 18, 2014 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Richard Blumenthal in Danbury News Times
  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...
• Ayesha Jalal in Daily 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...