specious
IPA: spˈiʃʌs
adjective
- Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
- Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
- Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
- (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.
- Alternative form of speciose (“rich in species”). [(taxonomy) Rich in species, such as when many species are members of a single genus.]
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Examples of "specious" in Sentences
- The translator list is specious.
- Some of the sources cited are specious.
- Much of the information is quite specious.
- Many of the arguments for deletion are specious.
- Further, the objection to the term seems specious.
- It was specious because the two E's are not the same.
- It is rather a specious example of the astronomical unit.
- His assessment is not just priggish, but also specious and flawed.
- Also, in what way is the argument in the fourth paragraph specious
- A 'sophism' is taken as a specious argument used for deceiving someone.
- She is what I call a specious pig, and why she wanted to send me a Christmas card I simply can't imagine.
- As a gun owner and a woman who has permit to carry, this whole argument that Obama will take away your guns in specious.
- "Bart" DePalma loves moving the goalposts or "reframing the issue", or "begging the question", or whatever you want to call his specious form of argumentation:
- Fanatics, on both sides of this debate, place themselves in specious, non-tenable positions because they†™ re not thinking completely through their positions.
- Night Shyamalan film about the crop circles to be quite specious, that is , Mel Gibson making some kind of deal with God to cure his son's asthma...but I have trouble with Shyamalan 's dialogue in any case.
- The ambassador condescended to justify, or excuse, the conduct of his master; and to protest, in specious language, that the murder of Gratian had been perpetrated, without his knowledge or consent, by the precipitate zeal of the soldiers.