spuriously

1. 1.

   in a false and spurious manner

   “the lawyer argued spuriously that his client knew nothing of the burglary”

Questions about spuriously

What does spuriously mean?

spuriously means "in a false and spurious manner".

How many syllables are in spuriously?

spuriously has 4 syllables and divides as spu-ri-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is spuriously a common word?

spuriously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.