Synonyms and Antonyms of spurious
- a spurious Picasso painting that wouldn't have fooled an art expert for a second
bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer, sham, snide, unauthentic
- claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks
automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic
double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous
exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)
cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering
conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden
artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
- the spurious son of Charles II, the Duke of Monmouth would later mount a rebellion in a disastrous attempt to claim the throne