Vocabulary
Spurious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
not being what it purports to be; false or fake.
Urdu meaning
جعلی، بظاہر ٹھیک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Besides spurious and counterfeit medicines, there are many other harmful categories of drugs, such as substandard, expired, adulterated and wrongly labelled drugs, or those discovered to have unreported adverse reactions.
- The following paragraph, put together from recent newspaper reports, gives a brief glimpse into the underworld of spurious and substandard drugs.
- The spurious drug manufacturers of Multan revealed that they received the packaging from a printing press located in Lahore.
- Purportedly, the `app` will enable customers to scan the QR code of the medicine packaging and be immediately informed whether or not the purchased medicine is spurious.
- Thus, the Drap gets to know at the same time if the drug was spurious or genuine, and is informed of the associated details of manufacturer, batch number, expiry date, etc.
Synonyms
bogus, fake, not genuine, specious, false, factitious, counterfeit, fraudulent,
Antonyms
authentic, genuine, real,
Curator example
“separating authentic and spurious claims”
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