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specious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | spurious |
| Derivation | speciousness |
a specious claim.
specious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gilded, glossy, meretricious |
| Derivation | speciousness |
Examples of specious
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That this is specious becomes clear when you consider everything that Adam does.
From the scienceblogs.com
Let's see you try the same, rather than throwing out specious defamatory claims.
From the swampland.time.com
It's the same sort of specious objections that have been raised about human meat.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
The argument that Tiger deserves privacy so Elin benefits in my mind is specious.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The one complication is that peers are specious with respect to your speculation.
From the iftomm2003.com
The argument is generally rejected as specious by those who oppose creationism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And they claim that users don't own that data, which is a totally specious claim.
From the businessweek.com
Then he goes and ruins it with some specious history regarding George W. Bush.
From the dailyherald.com
A secondary source will commonly convert such an estimate to a specious 16 km.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
- Gilded: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- (speciously) in a specious manner
- (speciousness) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
- (Speciousness) Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. ...
- Seemingly well-reasoned or factual, but actually fallacious or insincere; strongly held but false; Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive; Beautiful, pleasing to look at
- Seeming good or sound at first but lacking real merit.
- That form of argument used as an indoor sport by East Aurora natives in an attempt to prove that two or three make four.
- (sp sh s) adj.1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument. 2. Deceptively attractive.
