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Well, if it isn't the spurious five.
Obviously the patient was trying to deny it was a gambling house by dreaming of spurious cards.
Madam, I'm not in the habit of substituting for spurious Santa Clauses.
I think that's pretty spurious.
Of course we're so guilty and scared. we end up subjecting this simple, lovely idea. to every kind of spurious rationale.
Well, he sort of admits himself that his motives are. spurious?
Yes, Your Honor, 've examined counse's motion and find it spurious.
Spurious.
It's utter nonsense. Once again we attribute guilt to a spurious collective - rather than to individual culprits.
The latter task is made no easier when the gunship is panicked by your spurious transmissions.
Well, I'm afraid that. your version of events is, in fact, spurious.
Lenin purged from the genuine teaching of Karl Marx all the spurious ingredients introduced by the social democracy.
This fight, first by claiming spurious knowledge of the outcome.
And the passage in the fifteenth book of Tacitus's famous Annals, the forty-fourth chapter was nothing but a later spurious interpolation.
Spurious prisons, spurious ramparts, spurious stories.
And the spurious Mme.Middleton had to have an accomplice to oil the spring.
Run for the hills, Ma Barker, before I call the feds! -I think that's pretty spurious. -Well, thank you, honey.
And in the face of all of the spurious claims upon his kingdom- from Spain, from France from the Duchy of Milan- he would remind Your Holiness of the justice of the independent claims of Naples.
The accusations against my niece -- all spurious lies.
Fourteen people died in Fatehpura last night after drinking spurious liquor.
The town matrons who assessed such claims, which were usually spurious, were surprised when they were forced to agree Essie was indeed with child.
Oh, is this where you claim the tape is spurious?
Ah, like an attention-seeking dilettante wallowing in teenage angst whilst displaying a spurious nostalgia for the working classes.
But I don't see how I can ask for a search warrant for Laborde based on remarks made by a man in a coma to a childhood friend who put him in prison for the most spurious reasons.
I'm not willing to electrocute myself on the back of some spurious internet bullshit.
Spurious speculation.
I shall not condemn you for my. spurious offspring.
News and current affairs
Spurious economic arguments against higher taxes have been debunked in the West, but are still commonly repeated in the finance ministries of developing countries.
The argument that smaller lenders are not a systemic threat is spurious: consider Spain's cajas.
It is the breakdown of non-economistic, common-sense ways of valuing human activities -framing them in larger social contexts - that has led to today's spurious methods of calculating pay.
It means not allowing newspapers and TV to be hijacked by spurious passions and staged theatrics designed to divert attention from everything else.
The vast majority of these initial research claims would yield only spurious findings.
While the legal argument is probably spurious, an outright debt reduction for a eurozone country remains politically impossible.
While it assumes predictable financial flows, such predictability can be spurious.
Crimea was annexed on the spurious grounds that it had once been part of Russia - a justification that, if applied elsewhere, could underwrite the violent redrawing of boundaries in much of Europe.
But a recent academic study demonstrates how manufacturers, by drawing attention to what they are omitting from a product, perpetuate spurious concerns that actually drive consumers to take greater health risks.
Morsi's decision on November 22 to grant himself absolute authority for the spurious purpose of defending the revolution is not new for Egypt.
The Cultural Revolution's major figures, who wrought so much mindless violence, thus either maintain their silence or offer spurious self-defenses.
A military coup, imposed following the Thai constitutional court's ouster of an elected government on spurious legal grounds, can lead only to an artificial peace.
Under Nigeria's various dictatorships, for example, many journalists underwent a rite of passage that most prefer to forget: routine harassment, beatings, torture, frame-ups on spurious charges, and incongruously long prison sentences.
The Arab Spring drained away whatever spurious legitimacy that style of governance ever had.