Spurious vs Carnal - What's the difference?
spurious | carnal |
false, not authentic, not genuine
* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' '' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
(archaic) bastardly, illegitimate
* Milton
relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites
worldly or earthly; temporal
of or relating to the body or flesh
As adjectives the difference between spurious and carnal
is that spurious is false, not authentic, not genuine while carnal is relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.spurious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
- her spurious firstborn