Sentence example with the word 'speciously'

speciously

Definition adv. in a specious manner

Last update: October 26, 2015


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His aim was really to make the ecclesiastical courts independent of the law by speciously magnifying the royal authority over them.   [Please select]

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Thus Willy Cameron speciously to himself, and deliberately ignoring the fact that some twenty-odd officers stood ready to seize those Friday nights.   [Please select]

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The only way for Spain to put a limit to the ambitions of the Americans, he had argued speciously, was to shut them up within their natural limits.   [Please select]

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"We can have anything sent in that we want," he suggested speciously, "and if Dal doesn't make good with the city fathers, you girls can get some clothes anyhow."   [Please select]

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