specious

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishspeciousspe‧cious /ˈspiːʃəs/ adjective formal FALSEseeming to be true or correct, but actually false SYN misleading a specious argumentExamples from the Corpusspecious• The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.• 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.• There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.• All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.• specious logic• 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.Origin specious (1300-1400) Latin speciosus “beautiful, easily believed”, from species; → SPECIES

单词	specious
释义	specious From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishspeciousspe‧cious /ˈspiːʃəs/ adjective formal FALSEseeming to be true or correct, but actually false SYN misleading a specious argumentExamples from the Corpusspecious• The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.• 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.• There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.• All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.• specious logic• 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.Origin specious (1300-1400) Latin speciosus “beautiful, easily believed”, from species; → SPECIES
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