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specious
[spee-shuhs]
adjective
apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible.
specious arguments.
Antonyms:pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms:Obsolete.pleasing to the eye; fair.
specious
/ ˈ辱ːʃə /
adjective
apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false
deceptively attractive in appearance
Other 51Թ Forms
- speciously adverb
- speciousness noun
- nonspecious adjective
- nonspeciously adverb
- nonspeciousness noun
- unspecious adjective
- unspeciously adverb
- unspeciousness noun
- ˈdzܲԱ noun
- ˈdzܲ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of specious1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
He also accused the businessman of "resorting to all sorts of specious legal twists" and claimed he should "start behaving respectfully".
ABC, the president of ABC News was no doubt opposed to caving to Trump on his specious claim.
Nor do a publisher’s specious appeals to us based on bothsiderism in an existential election.
And as they did in 2020, Trump’s agents and allies are already preparing to flood the courts with specious lawsuits to stop Kamala Harris from assuming office if she wins the 2024 election.
Kevin Maher of the Times called the film "puerile, pointless and intellectually specious", noting that some audience members walked out of the Cannes Film Festival screening.
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