speciousness
IPA: spˈiʃʌsnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being specious.
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being specious.
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Examples of "speciousness" in Sentences
- Is the speciousness of your argument clear enough yet?
- The utter speciousness of your comparison in the above is embarrassing.
- The transparency of the speciousness of your points reveals that you don't have a clue about what the other side is fighting for.
- The passage, as it proceeds, is not without an air of speciousness, which is yet, as it appears to us, only derived from a perversion of the assumption against which it is directed.
- Obama made a “weather here/weather there” comparison to specifically note the speciousness, and then went on to address the issue of trends of which certain types of weather patters are an exemplar.
- The speciousness began right from its opening lines: “Recent reports on experiments with mice have given wide publicity to a theory that cigarette smoking is in some way linked with lung cancer in human beings.”
- Henry Sidgwick's obsessively persistent speciousness, distortions and misrepresentations in the face of rational, objective evidence mark him as a person who desires the Jews eternally to be subservient to host nations.
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