Today's Word "spurious"
Not proceeding from the true source
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spurious \SPYUR-ee-uhs\ (adjective) - 1 : Not proceeding from the true or claimed source; not genuine; false. 2 : Of illegitimate birth.
"She knew, with the perfect cynicism of cruel youth, that to rise in the world meant to have one outside show instead of another, the advance was like having a spurious half-crown instrad of a spurious penny. The whole coinage of valuation was spurious. Yet of course, her cynicism knew well enough that, in a world where spurious coin was current, a bad sovereign was better than a bad farthing." -- D.H. Lawrence, 'Women in Love'
Spurious comes from Latin spurius, "illegitimate, hence false, inauthentic."
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