specious
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As a 25-year high-school math teacher in Alameda, Calif., I’ve listened to all the specious, spurious, self-serving excuses for denying students and families educational choice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
The “real, factual data” that underpinned Leavitt’s statement was specious at best.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
“His claims that the investigations surrounding him are specious — the investigations were appropriate,” Kastor added.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025
It is difficult to determine the full impact of Skrmetti because it is so strangely constructed—a series of half-arguments and specious assumptions stitched together into one analytic trainwreck.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025
As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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