1. in a false or deceptive manner; without genuine basis or authenticity

Examples

• The data was spuriously presented to support the flawed hypothesis.
• He spuriously claimed to have a medical degree from Harvard.
• The correlation between the variables was spuriously high due to measurement error.
• The company spuriously advertised their product as organic.
• The witness spuriously testified about events he never witnessed.
• The results appeared significant but were spuriously inflated by the small sample size.