Sentence example with the word 'specious'

specious

airy, casuistic, delusionary, erroneous, illogical, incorrect, overrefined, presumable, self-deluding, supposititious, vain

Definition adj. plausible but false

Last update: February 23, 2017


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Don't misguide me by such specious argument.   [adjective]

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Bankers, men of a more positive nature, devised a specious fable.   [adjective]

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Instead we have witnessed specious arguments over how close to zero a GM content is near enough GM-free.   [adjective]

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How many times, after an equivoque, after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip."   [Please select]

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William of Orange was not deceived by the specious temporizing of the king.   [Please select]

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Public declarations pass for the specious colouring of a cause.   [Please select]

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Talcott's storm-beaten and immutable face; and she heard specious reassurance in her voice.   [Please select]

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Adair had vetoed vacation visits, under some specious pretense.   [Please select]

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A specious, plausible man, Anton had, as I before said, made friends with Joe.   [Please select]

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] We must not be misled by "false, specious idealism masquerading as progress".   [Please select]

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