Word: spuriousness
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...lightweight; he has a foxy, seasoned legal mind. With 35 years of courtroom fencing behind him, Welch has a sharp eye for phonies. It was he who first recognized the doctored photograph for what it was; last week he was the first to spot McCarthy's spurious "FBI letter" (see above...
...fact." Seven of Dallas' most prominent Protestant ministers wrote to President Lee, expressing "outraged Christian conscience" over Beaty's "inflammatory and divisive" writings. Finally, a group of S.M.U. law professors took a long and belated look at Beaty's book, denounced it as a collection of "spurious doctrines and bigoted theories of racial and religious prejudice...
...write newspapers when not playing poker or cracking insoluble cases for policemen who are almost as corrupt as they are incompetent. Set mostly in the press room of a city jail, the picture dotes on hardboiled softies screaming "hold the presses, tear out the front page," and other spurious journalism...
...build His church on the "rock" of Peter, with his accompanying command to rule the faithful?† Luther and the Protestant reformers held that by "rock" Christ meant not Peter but Himself, or the faith of His followers. Many modern Biblical scholars insist that the text itself is either spurious or garbled...
Following the vote, Vishinsky launched a further attack on the American case, denouncing it as "a falsification, a fake and utterly spurious...