specious

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specious Definition

• (s) plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
• (s) plausible but false; "a specious claim"
• (s) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

specious Synonyms

• gilded
• meretricious
• specious
• spurious