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词汇 spuriously
释义 spuriously
adverb
uk /ˈspjʊə.ri.əs.li/ us /ˈspjʊr.i.əs.li/
in a way that is false and not what it appears to be:
She turns up, claiming spuriously to be Sam's mother.
His fame led to several other works being spuriously attributed to him.
The police closed the event, spuriously claiming it was overcrowded.
A small sample size has the potential to skew the data, for example by spuriously inflating the importance of certain items.
The company avoided giving a precise forecast for fear of looking spuriously precise.
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