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单词
specious
释义
specious
spe‧cious
/
ˈspiːʃəs
/
adjective
formal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
specious
Origin:
1300-1400
Latin
speciosus
‘beautiful, easily believed’
, from
species
;
➔
SPECIES
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
specious
logic
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the
specious
fear of isolation.
Even so, the size-and-weight-of-head argument is a rather
specious
one.
In the history of ideas, it is always
specious
to divide matters into a before and an after.
In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a
specious
and unpopular neutrality.
So a dangerous tolerance of error and a
specious
attitude of humility towards truth has arisen.
The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a
specious
air of universality.
There was a
specious
ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.
seeming to be true or correct, but actually false
SYN
misleading
:
a specious argument
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