What's the difference between ersatz and spurious?

Ersatz


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (2) Firmino was hardly in the picture but maybe this is the point of his ersatz position.
  • (3) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
  • (4) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
  • (5) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
  • (6) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
  • (7) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
  • (8) Phaco-Ersatz represents a new approach to cataract surgery and the correction of aphakia.
  • (9) Despite a combination of injuries and suspensions to key personnel leaving John Carver’s side with a distinctly ersatz look, Newcastle were not quite so makeshift in practice.
  • (10) In the mountains, ersatz approximations of a Swiss ski resort have sprouted.
  • (11) Each of these ersatz soldiers presumably made their own calculations as to where personal advantage might lie.
  • (12) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
  • (13) That wasn't a million miles away from an ersatz recreation of the famous Dennis Bergkamp goal, in terms of field position of the two players, anyway.
  • (14) On day three it's the duck confit again, because "they do get the skin crisp don't they, not like all those terribly ersatz versions you get in Islington".
  • (15) Ersatz sub-Ronaldo teamsheet drama: Fabregas may yet not start!
  • (16) Sylvia Robinson from Grimsby's real Brides and Maids store, told the Grimsby Telegraph that Baron Cohen was "ridiculous", but said she saw the funny side of the ersatz movie version.
  • (17) What we have been observing – wage stagnation [PDF] and rising inequality , even as wealth increases – does not reflect the workings of a normal market economy, but of what I call ersatz capitalism.
  • (18) The implications of that defense relative to the use of ersatz nutrients are explored.
  • (19) Doubling back further up Granby Street, one reaches some of the appalling "regenerative" modern housing that has replaced the terraced streets already fallen to Liverpool's random wrecking ball: some of them – ersatz Lego bricks of the cheapest materials – are already dilapidated, while others almost new are managing to last a few years, like Michael Simon's mother's new house on Cawdor Street.
  • (20) A cavalcade of readers, mainly women, mostly in full Regency costume, congregated for a joyous weekend of workshops and lectures, receptions and dinners, a costume parade (past ersatz saloons and Tex-Mex restaurants), crowned by a Regency ball.

Spurious


Definition:

  • (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
  • (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The definitions, aetiology, and symptomatology of the diastema mediale superior are discussed in the present study on the basis of personal experience and reports in the literature, special attention being paid to the verbal evaluation of "genuine" or "spurious".
  • (2) The origin of spurious currents and how they must be minimized in the design of either a liquid- or gas-filled ionization chamber is discussed.
  • (3) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (4) The double-antibody technic showed spuriously elevated levels, and the single-antibody technic showed low levels of serum TSH by radioimmunoassay in the presence of antibodies.
  • (5) Buckling down to China's restrictive rules gave a spurious respectability to such activities without helping Google much since Baidu, its Chinese equivalent, still has 70% of the search market.
  • (6) Insertion of the trimer into several expression vectors efficiently prevented spurious expression of reporter genes resulting from transcriptional initiation in prokaryotic plasmid sequences in transfected mammalian cells.
  • (7) The drug paracetamol (N-acetyl-p-aminophenol; acetaminophen) caused a spurious increase in serum uric acid measured by phosphotungstic acid reduction methods.
  • (8) RSL kick off... 3.09am GMT Speaking of epic... …this might be a spurious link, but I don't care.
  • (9) The results imply that the traditional methods of sacrifice may result in the measurement of spuriously low tissue concentrations of some peptides, e.g.
  • (10) The risk of reporting a chance spurious association could be reduced if family studies, such as sib comparisons, were carried out at the same time as the original survey, rather than after many surveys have been conducted.
  • (11) That is to say, an identification via projective identification has taken place, which heightens intrinsic omnipotence, to allow what has been termed the identificate to believe that it has become the desired object--and thereby that within this spuriously organized ego-structure exist the characteristics and functions of the object or part object that has been taken over.
  • (12) However, medical experts told the Guardian last week that assertions by Arizona officials that Wood was “brain dead” during the execution are spurious.
  • (13) Dom's being very hard on himself - he couldn't write spurious nonsense if he tried.
  • (14) A patient blood sample with an unexpectedly high hemoglobin level, high hematocrit, low white blood cell count, and low platelet count was recognized as being spurious based on previously available data.
  • (15) This method includes ways of carrying out 'tight' or 'loose' grouping, of allowing for variability of reporting of physical features by different observers, and of minimising the number of 'spurious' groups.
  • (16) This trend in the level of underenumeration has spuriously blunted the true increasing incidence of melanoma and may limit the ability to monitor and study this disease in the future.
  • (17) Between 1982 and 1989 we identified 47 subjects with spuriously increased concentrations of free thyroxin (FT4) or free triiodothyronine (FT3) related to autoantibody interference in analog FT4 and (or) FT3 methods.
  • (18) To elucidate spurious correlation among these indices and T3, partial correlation analysis among these indices and its influencing factors were calculated.
  • (19) Opponents say that by giving development plans green credentials that may be spurious, offsetting speeds up planning approvals in practice, and limits natural environments for flora and fauna in absolute terms.
  • (20) Two patients are described with spurious leukopenia secondary to in vitro aggregation of neutrophils.