spurious (spyoor.ee.uhs)
adjective
- not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
Giovanelli had certainly a very pretty face; but Winterbourne felt a superior indignation at his own lovely fellow countrywoman’s not knowing the difference between a spurious gentleman and a real one.
synonyms:
affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, baseborn, bastard, bogus, brummagem, colorable, colored, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, deceitful, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fatherless, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forged, fraudulent, garbled, hypocritical, illegitimate, imitation, inauthentic, make-believe, meretricious, misbegotten, miscited, miscreated, misquoted, misreported, misstated, mock, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretend, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, so-called, soi-disant, substitute, supposititious, synthetic, titivated, twisted, unauthentic, unauthoritative, unfounded, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, unreliable, warped.
antonyms:
genuine, legitimate, true, truthful, authentic, honest, veritable, attested, undisputed.
japanese translation:
偽物 – fake
にせもの – ni.se.mo.no
