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Definition of specious in English: speciousadjective ˈspiːʃəsˈspiʃəs 1Superficially plausible, but actually wrong. Example sentencesExamples - These arguments are specious, but they are based on rosy assumptions or bad analogies.
- Although the argument was specious, since everyone knew the significance of the vote, he certainly had been evasive when questioned directly on the issue.
- The court determined this argument was specious.
- We should take care to use arguments that aren't specious.
- Criticism should be founded on a writer's life and work, not just on previous criticism or specious theories.
- I've always found this kind of argument a little specious, since most people don't know and could care less about when a composer wrote a work.
- The usual specious arguments we see in one country are now being regurgitated in others.
- Hucksters flaunted their specious cure-ails on posters, broadsides, and other printed formats.
- It is a specious and cynical reference at best.
- Many proponents of personal accounts have used specious arguments about the potential for superior rates of return.
- Kindly keep your preposterous, specious opinions out of conversations that don't concern you!
- This argument was presumably specious since the integrated system has since been jettisoned in favor of subcontracting.
- If money is abused, there's going to be a crisis; at some point there will be a ‘run’ from specious financial claims.
- We can't rally around specious information that diminishes our ability to think critically about real and present health threats.
- This is a specious argument that he has been making.
- What he required of us was that we avoided specious or muddled argument.
- The argument is obviously somewhat specious.
- The case for large bonuses on top of large salaries is essentially specious, at least for anyone of my generation.
- Because the charges against the airlines were specious but successful, every pilot must worry that his good-faith effort to protect his passengers will trigger federal retaliation.
- Occasionally, you hear the specious argument that musicians don't need the money they might lose to the Internet services.
- 1.1 Misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive.
the music trade gives Golden Oldies a specious appearance of novelty Synonyms plausible but wrong, seemingly correct, misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious, unsound, casuistic, sophistic
Derivatives noun -ʃɪˈɒsɪti adverb ˈspiːʃəsliˈspiʃəsli The play speciously associates giving all with ultimate return. Example sentencesExamples - The government speciously said it withheld to protect the privacy of the advice given by the.
- He offers a speciously complicated analysis.
- The Sherpa-roadies were ecstatic and told jokes throughout the evening, while each of us nodded speciously, not really listening.
- His presentation was very polished and, I would imagine, speciously appealing to many not familiar with the facts.
noun ˈspiːʃəsnəsˈspiʃəsnəs The speciousness of this argument is apparent. Example sentencesExamples - The novel thus exposes the speciousness of social discourses that worked to maintain the theory.
- A visit to the region reveals the speciousness of its account.
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'beautiful'): from Latin speciosus 'fair', from species (see species). Definition of specious in US English: speciousadjectiveˈspiʃəsˈspēSHəs 1Superficially plausible, but actually wrong. Example sentencesExamples - Many proponents of personal accounts have used specious arguments about the potential for superior rates of return.
- Kindly keep your preposterous, specious opinions out of conversations that don't concern you!
- What he required of us was that we avoided specious or muddled argument.
- The usual specious arguments we see in one country are now being regurgitated in others.
- It is a specious and cynical reference at best.
- Hucksters flaunted their specious cure-ails on posters, broadsides, and other printed formats.
- The argument is obviously somewhat specious.
- This argument was presumably specious since the integrated system has since been jettisoned in favor of subcontracting.
- The case for large bonuses on top of large salaries is essentially specious, at least for anyone of my generation.
- This is a specious argument that he has been making.
- I've always found this kind of argument a little specious, since most people don't know and could care less about when a composer wrote a work.
- These arguments are specious, but they are based on rosy assumptions or bad analogies.
- If money is abused, there's going to be a crisis; at some point there will be a ‘run’ from specious financial claims.
- Occasionally, you hear the specious argument that musicians don't need the money they might lose to the Internet services.
- Because the charges against the airlines were specious but successful, every pilot must worry that his good-faith effort to protect his passengers will trigger federal retaliation.
- Criticism should be founded on a writer's life and work, not just on previous criticism or specious theories.
- The court determined this argument was specious.
- We can't rally around specious information that diminishes our ability to think critically about real and present health threats.
- Although the argument was specious, since everyone knew the significance of the vote, he certainly had been evasive when questioned directly on the issue.
- We should take care to use arguments that aren't specious.
- 1.1 Misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive.
the music trade gives Golden Oldies a specious appearance of novelty Synonyms plausible but wrong, seemingly correct, misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious, unsound, casuistic, sophistic
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘beautiful’): from Latin speciosus ‘fair’, from species (see species). |