In a letter to Montague he says that he had not seen a blush from his first landing at Calais, and gives a sarcastic description of the spurious devotion which the example of the old repentant roué, Louis XIV.
The tendency to separate readily into parts byspurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.
When used in a diluted form it is highly beneficial for relieving the same symptoms, if they come on as an attack of illness, particularly for the spurious croup of children, which wakes them at night with a suffocative cough and wheezing.
True Chamomile flowers may be known from spurious ones (of the Feverfew) which have no bracts on the receptacle when the florets are removed.
In later times the Bryony has come into use instead of the true mandrake, and it has continued to form a profitable spurious article with mountebank doctors.
A spurious Samphire, the Inula crithmoides, or Golden Samphire, is often supplied in lieu of the real plant, though it has a different flavour, and few of the proper virtues.
In the first place, the meaningless changes disappear if we compare the spurious Nicene creed with that of Jerusalem instead of the genuine Nicene.
Leaving, however, the spurious Nicene Creed till we come to it, let us see how the genuine Nicene Creed dealt with Arianism.
Disraeli made English politics interesting, just as Ismail Pasha gave at one time a spurious interest to the politics of Egypt.
It would have possessed a real rather than, as has been shown to be the case, a spurious vitality.
I soon became fatigued by the brilliant sameness of the scene; and a sort of spurious philosophy again led me back to the Queen’s drawing-room, and set me reflecting on numerous subjects, in which I had not the remotest interest!
The union of these qualities engendered a sort of spurious sensibility, which constantly led him to apprehend offence where none was ever intended.
The museum contains many objects of real interest, particularly to the naturalist and geologist, intermingled with a great deal that is spurious and contemptible.
Mammon is the idol which the people worship; the one desire is the acquisition of money; the most nefarious trickery and bold dishonesty are invested with a spurious dignity if they act as aids to the attainment of this object.
In the spurious narrative published in Tonty's name, the account is embellished and exaggerated.
The account of the affair of Monso in the spurious work bearing Tonty's name is mere romance.
The rest, as far as this man was concerned, may be told in a few words; nothing to criminate him was found on his person, but on his baggage being examined, a quantity of spurious notes were discovered.
Thereupon one of the three magistrates who were present asked me whether I chanced to have any more of these spurious notes in my possession.
A lanky fellow, against whom some time ago was brought a grave law-suit anent the spurious child-birth of a lying belly.
Her Majesty was Queen Caroline, whom Lamb had championed.
Bishopsgate Street, conversing the whole way on the same unhappy subject.
Have we not seen, besides all the Testamens Politiques, the spuriousletters of Ninon de l'Enclos, of Pope Ganganelli, and the Memoirs of the Princess Palatine?
For my own play, I was going to publish it in my own defence, as a spurious edition was advertised here, besides one in Ireland.
I believe the evil is daily increasing, as the spurious money is carried into circulation by the lowest class of manufacturers, who pay with it the principal part of the wages of the poor people they employ.
Establishing the lady to be a spurious article, however, what was one to think of a married man in company with such?
Not only were they to be knights, they would have to be Titans, for the powers of the world, the spurious ruling Social Gods, would have to be defied and overthrown.
There are three spurious letters attributed to Vespucci, but they are now so universally held to be forgeries, that they need not occupy our time.
Portuguese voyage of Almeida; having found that some incidents in the spurious letter occur also in the account of the voyage of Almeida.
The cosmopolitism which does not spring out of, and blossom upon, the deep-rooted stem of nationality or patriotism, is a spurious and rotten growth.
Nevertheless, such is the sinfulness of men that spurious relics are often imposed upon the faithful.
It has been ascertained that the spurious elytra of these insects are serviceable in their flight.
Pedate larvae are of two descriptions: those that to perfect legs add spuriousones with or without claws, and those that have only perfect legs.
The next order of walkers amongst apodous larvae are those that move by means of fleshy tuberculiform or pediform prominences,--which last resemble the spuriouslegs of the caterpillars of most Lepidoptera.
Others again go a little further, and are supported at their anterior extremity by a pair of spurious legs.
For a childless wife like Dora Wyllard a garden such as this is a kind of spurious family.
Yet this spurious gaiety of hers was the worst symptom of all, and was very close to hysteria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spurious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
