spurious

adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious

inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-

Ethel Albert [syn: {specious}]

2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed

away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman

[syn: {bastard}, {bastardly}, {misbegot}, {misbegotten}, {natural(a)}]

3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: {inauthentic},

{unauthentic}]