specious
Example Sentences
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Charges that the Panama Canal Authority is in cahoots with China have always been specious.
The trouble with most theories about conspiratorial schemes—the weird ones of 4chan and the specious ones of the faculty lounges—is that they arise from motivated reasoning.
It’s a specious explanation that doesn’t add up.
The “real, factual data” that underpinned Leavitt’s statement was specious at best.
From Salon
But that is a specious argument, because money is fungible.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
