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“Spurious” in Japanese

Short answer
似て非なる nitehinaru nitehinaru

Spurious in Japanese is “似て非なる” (nitehinaru). Full meaning: similar but different, alike only in appearance, falsely similar, spurious, sham, pseudo-.

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