spurious

About 2.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective False, not authentic, not genuine.

   His argument was spurious and had no validity.

2. adjective Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted.

   I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.

3. adjective Bastardly, illegitimate.

Similar words

inauthentic counterfeit specious illegitimate misbegot misbegotten bastardly bastard invalid unauthentic

Often followed by

and or correlation signals results one effects in claims

Word family

spuriously spuriousness spuriousnesses