speciousness
Example Sentences
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It declined to dig into the research and warn other courts across the country about the speciousness of the warrior gene theory.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2021
It was the original 1932 Scarface that laid out the speciousness of the genre.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2017
The brilliant Ruby Tandoh recently examined the speciousness of some of the faux-scientific thinking underpinning various of these works.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2016
I was among those who spent years protesting the speciousness of this claim, until Foster finally was forced to drop it and concede that John Ford wrote the poem.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2011
Hence we see that the very essence of a fallacy is its speciousness.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
