specious
Example Sentences
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Through two years of hard fighting and specious allegations against Israel, there hasn’t been evidence of anything like the field executions Hamas perpetrated in its first week of “quiet.”
“His claims that the investigations surrounding him are specious — the investigations were appropriate,” Kastor added.
From Los Angeles Times
He also accused the businessman of "resorting to all sorts of specious legal twists" and claimed he should "start behaving respectfully".
From BBC
ABC, the president of ABC News was no doubt opposed to caving to Trump on his specious claim.
From Salon
Nor do a publisher’s specious appeals to us based on bothsiderism in an existential election.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
