specious
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Specious ones to the left, weird ones to the right—all arise from motivated reasoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
"Specious and spurious legal bullying of artists should be vigorously opposed, and that opposition must begin first and foremost with all of us in the New York Theatre community," the letter says.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2012
Specious enough is that argument: but shortsighted more than enough.
From Sermons for the Times by Kingsley, Charles
Specious as is this opinion at first sight, it has against it all the numerous facts which observation furnishes.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Specious assumption, too; but that requires brass, and I want gold.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 by Various
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