adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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specious logic
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.
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Even so, the size-and-weight-of-head argument is a rather specious one.
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In the history of ideas, it is always specious to divide matters into a before and an after.
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In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopular neutrality.
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So a dangerous tolerance of error and a specious attitude of humility towards truth has arisen.
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The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.
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There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.