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Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Adulterine :: Adulterine (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Pseudograph :: Pseudograph (n.) A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.

Isidorian :: Isidorian (a.) Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century..

Philosophism :: Philosophism (n.) Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

Right :: Right (a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

Supposititious :: Supposititious (a.) Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing..

Adulterate :: Adulterate (a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.

Spurless :: Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue..

Interpolated :: Interpolated (a.) Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter..

Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so..

Misedition :: Misedition (n.) An incorrect or spurious edition.

Adulterous :: Adulterous (a.) Characterized by adulteration; spurious.

Bogus :: Bogus (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit..

Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

Truthless :: Truthless (a.) Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..

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