Specious Definition

spēshəs
adjective
Seeming to be good, sound, correct, logical, etc. without really being so; plausible but not genuine.
Specious logic.
Webster's New World
Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious.
A specious argument.
American Heritage
Pleasing to the sight.
Webster's New World
Deceptively appealing.
American Heritage
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Origin of Specious

  • Middle English attractive from Latin speciōsus from speciēs appearance spek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin speciōsus (“good-looking").

    From Wiktionary

Specious Sentence Examples

  • This argument is rather specious than sound.

  • William of Orange was not deceived by the specious temporizing of the king.

  • But Mary had, under a specious pretext, recommenced to a slight extent the evil practice, and Elizabeth had gone a little further in the same direction.

  • In 1850 his power of specious argument won back to him his Chicago constituents who had violently attacked him for not opposing the Fugitive Slave Law.

  • The rush of the Mahommedan flood sent terror all over Europe, but the little opposition it encountered south of the Pyrenees is to be easily explained, and the victory, though genuine, was more specious than substantial.

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