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spe·cious [ˈspi:ʃəs] ADJ pej form

specious allegation, argument:

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In this music there is nothing specious, although it does not easily always find a straight path to the listeners immediate understanding. en.wikipedia.org

Arguments that it costs more to be environmentally sound are often specious when the course of the business is analyzed over a period of time. en.wikipedia.org

It is also a company whose senior management is not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing. en.wikipedia.org

The narrator has a tendency to engage in false pleading and specious argument, while the workers demonstrate honesty and commonsense. en.wikipedia.org

The first argument, of course, is specious, since 80 percent of small savings collections go to the states. www.firstpost.com

But every part of this tale is utterly specious. www.thestar.com

Their administration was fraught with politics, and some artists' cards were revoked on specious grounds. en.wikipedia.org

His lectures were clear, precise, and singularly practical: no merely specious theories, no rash generalizations, no loose assertions, found place there; all was logical, accurate, true. en.wikipedia.org

The painting alludes to the specious relationship of specialisation and disintegration. en.wikipedia.org

Because of their specious obviousness, many are widely held. en.wikipedia.org

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