Word: spuriousness
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Some droned 30,000 ft. above Eastern population centers on fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
...intermodulation distortion, is the result of two or more separate tones affecting each other in such a way as to produce a spurious, discordant, frequency. It is minute traces of this type of fault which lead to "listener fatigue," a condition characterized by a desire on the part of the listener to shut the set off, even though he doesn't quite know what is irritating him. In larger doses this is the rasping, grating effect we are used to from the majority of transistor radios, for example...
...Confusion. The most striking example of what Shen was talking about came from Mali's Borema Bocoum, who invoked "objectivity and realism" to demand that Red China be "restored to its proper place in the U.N.," then protested that any proposal for free elections in East Germany is "spurious" and "designed to breed confusion in people's minds." In a classic example of nonaligned non sequitur, Bocoum proclaimed: "The idea of self-determination is valid only for peoples who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty...
...community; nor could any but his close associates be expected to realize his whole-hearted commitment to the Loeb Drama Center, both before and after its actual construction. But it is certainly reasonable to expect that a student newspaper will exercise a modicum of restraint before allowing allegations as spurious as those regarding Mr. Aaron to be printed in their columns as fact...
Time after time, De Chirico publicly labeled works signed with his name as spurious and got them "sequestered"-a legal action whereby police seize a painting until a court can judge its authenticity...