specious
Example Sentences
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The courts may invalidate specious claims that certain imports threaten national security.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
