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 words! but entirely empty, or full of fraud; and by how much they were covered with the greater guise of liberty, by so much threatening a more hasty and devouring bondage.
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Gordon, Thomas
Specious and audacious generalization is, however, a vice of thinking more attractive to most than any virtue,—above all, if it flatter their wishes and opinions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
Specious arguments are insidious and irresistible, and you will go down.
From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)
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