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Перевод: spurious

[прилагательное]
поддельный; ложный; подложный; незаконнорожденный

Тезаурус:

1. The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables, testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable, and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable.
2. The director, even more impressed with the tall, meaty young man with a flashing smile and an indefinable and absolutely spurious air of distinction, gave him walk-on parts.
3. The cannonball ceremony, unknown to history, was devised in 1980 to give some spurious touristic focus to the west end of the island, often neglected by visitors.
4. It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid, trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer.
5. The original bivariate effect would have been larger than the effect once sex is controlled in this case, because once more it will contain a spurious component.
6. When Pip's fortunes fall Pumblechook changes his attitude for one of spurious pity, condemning Pip for his "want of gratitoode".
7. Under the statute, such a warrant may be granted on the spurious ground that the police suspect that public order offences may be committed by large numbers of people.
8. In answer to "obscure and spurious questions such as whether universals may exist by themselves, whether they are only in the mind, whether they exist separate from things or only with them", he says that these "great universals are nothing more than common nouns that can be applied to more than one object".
9. One of the most frightening aspects of all intelligence agencies is the manner in which they create a totally false brand of patriotism in order to further a particular cause on the spurious grounds that only they understand what needs to be done and should not be asked to account or explain for any of their actions which must remain secret for all time.
10. Provided the counties, or other entrepreneurs, do not try to fill the gaps with spurious additional games - a serious danger which must be avoided - they should be better prepared to play good cricket on pitches, moreover, which should also be better prepared.
11. If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control, we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist, but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect.
12. The code letters are spurious, dating from this aircraft's film star days with "633 Sqn".
13. However, the watering down of a basic and principled commitment, within Labour or any other libertarian party, especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality, could prove deeply discrediting.