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"Specious" in a Sentence (14 examples)
That's specious reasoning.
Tom's arguments are entirely specious.
Residents said the bill would open the door to specious accusations against dissidents, religious figures, businessmen and others.
This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.
now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
I have frequently amused myself both in public and private companies, with silently remarking, the specious errors of those who speak without reflecting.
“Number two is that for reasons which I regarded at the time as specious and insulting, the Americans objected to your husband's presence on that committee not three weeks after it met, and asked me to replace him with somebody more to their liking. Since Magnus was kingpin of the Czecho operation and of several other little shows in Eastern Europe besides, this was a totally unrealistic demand."
Feig’s Ghostbusters isn’t out until July 15, but since the project was announced in 2014 as a reboot of the hit 1984 film[…] a vocal minority of movie fans have come up with specious reasons to criticize it.
With early virtues plant your breaſt, / The ſpecious arts of vice deteſt.
But a third cause of the delusion is, that the Church of Rome has become more specious and deceitful than before the Reformation.
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And could any thing be more ſpecious, or more equal, than that fair diſtribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?
[T]he success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
This argument, though specious, will not, upon examination, be found solid.
Coelorinchus is the most specious genus of macrourids with 122 species at the time of writing and more yet to be described.
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