单词	specious
释义	speciousspe‧cious /ˈspiːʃəs/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINspecious 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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