spurious

Infinitive complement

• argue: It is spurious to argue that a new agenda will have short term economic benefits.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: But the cost of living is much lower in Africa, making such comparisons somewhat spurious.

Modifies a noun

• oscillation: The numerical method then must be able to handle discontinuities without introducing non-physical, spurious oscillations.
• legitimacy: Its master was even prepared to falsify charters to give its changed role a spurious legitimacy.
• detection: There was also a spurious detection toward the bottom of the field.
• justification: In addition, it provides a spurious justification for the maintenance and extension of the surveillance state.
• charter: Fortunately, spurious charters are usually identified in printed editions.
• correlation: The main problem with spurious correlations is that we typically do not know what the " hidden " agent is.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: The legal authority claimed for the Norms was therefore utterly spurious.
• entirely: Many have been cut down for entirely spurious reasons.
• somewhat: But the cost of living is much lower in Africa, making such comparisons somewhat spurious.
• totally: This alone shows the totally spurious nature of this justification.
• equally: This assumption is equally spurious for, if anything, the Bay of Pigs was a classic tragedy of good intentions.
• completely: A great deal of the evidence presented for evolution is completely spurious.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: For a format that seemed so spurious in conception and then initially vague upon realization, I'm a Celebrity.. .
• prove: Thank god many of the gloomy predictions of Labor's left wing proved spurious.
• consider: Thus nearly 99 % of these hadith were considered spurious.
• make: Without the payment in satisfaction function some defendants would make spurious, unsupported offers.
• appear: However, this argument appeared spurious, since practically nothing is reliably known about which kinds of intervention achieve relevant outcomes in PSE work.
• prevent: The delay on upward crossing of the threshold provides immunity to transients and other interference, thereby preventing spurious triggering of the output relay.