Legal Definition and Related Resources of Spurious

Fraudulent or counterfeit . See Acme Stores v Better business Bureau of Baton Rouge, 74 So.2d43, 225 La. 824.

adjective

• apocryphal
• artificial
• bogus
• counterfeit
• deceitful
• deceptive
• delusive
• ersatz
• fabricated
• fake
• faked
• false
• feigned
• fictitious
• forged
• fraudulent
• illegitimate
• imitation
• misrepresented
• mock
• pinchbeck
• pretend
• pseudo
• quasi
• sham
• simulated
• synthetic
• unauthentic
• ungenuine
• unreal
• untrue Associated Concepts: spurious claim

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Etimology of Spurious

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1590s, “born out of wedlock,” from Latin spurius “illegitimate, false” (source also of Italian spurio, Spanish espurio), from spurius; this term is also a noun. “illegitimate child,” probably from Etruscan spural “public.” Sense of “having an irregular origin, not properly constituted” is from c. 1600; that of “false, sham” is from 1610s; of writing, etc., “not proceeding from the source pretended, 1620s. Related: Spuriously; spuriousness.