adverb
- in a false or deceptive manner; without genuine basis or authenticity
Examples
- The data was spuriously presented to support the flawed hypothesis.
- He spuriously claimed to have a medical degree from Harvard.
- The correlation between the variables was spuriously high due to measurement error.
- The company spuriously advertised their product as organic.
- The witness spuriously testified about events he never witnessed.
- The results appeared significant but were spuriously inflated by the small sample size.