The stone hall was covered with stately, patterned hangings that gave the walls a spurious, slightly ridiculous dignity.

But the whole thing seemed sham, spurious; spurious Gothic arches, spurious peace, spurious Latinity, spurious dignity of France, spurious naivete of Chaucer.

He makes false claims of modern scientific methods to give a spurious dignity to his thaumaturgy.

Like Elvis himself, Graceland seemed just fine on the outside, all columns and spurious dignity, but on the inside horror lurked.

Seat belts and the spurious dignity of middle age kept her from it.

A highly-developed sense of the ridiculous is inimical to the striking of certain musical attitudes; and, while I'm sure mason regards the craft of composition itself with profound seriousness, there are clearly many compositional modes and self images which he's quite unable to invest with the spurious dignity they often demand.