word of the day :: spurious

spurious:

[spyoor-ee-uhs]

–adjective

1.  not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.

2. Biology . (of two or more parts, plants, etc.) having asimilar appearance but a different structure.

3. of illegitimate birth; bastard.

Origin:

1590-1600;  < L spurius  bastard, perh. < Etruscan; see -ous.

"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives."

:: Vladimir Nabokov ::

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