| 1. | The resonant voice of the Hungarian was about to prevail in ridicule of the spurious lutes of the romantic painters when Segouin shepherded his party into politics. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | There is one genuine pleasure, and two spurious ones the tyrant goes beyond even the latter he has run away altogether from law and reason. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 3. | The spurious wise, however, all the priests, the world-weary, and those whose souls are of feminine and servile nature--oh, how hath their game all along abused selfishnes. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | And spurious wisdom so doth it call all the wit that slaves, and hoary-headed and weary ones affect and especially all the cunning, spurious-witted, curious-witted foolishness of priest. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |