Specious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPECIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• plausible, but inaccurate
• superficially plausible, but actually wrong
• misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive
• apparently true, but actually false
• Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
• Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
• plausible but false
• based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a false look of truth or authenticity

Words related to SPECIOUS

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Words that contain SPECIOUS

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How to use SPECIOUS in a sentence

• One very specious objection is made as regards feudalism, which some clear-minded people obstinately confound with chivalry.
• Hence the present bill, under the specious mask of a temporary interference, sought nothing less than its abolition.
• Well, to be brief, the joy as fit occasions rise, I grudge you not, of specious lies.
• I gave you, in my long letter of Wednesday and Thursday last, reasons why you ought to mistrust that specious Tomlinson.
• Away, then, with the specious and long-winded arguments of a false and mistaken philosophy.
• The specious gilding of Tacitus I have endeavoured to shun.
• It has a specious air of being on the side of the artist.
• But that chapter does not need a commentary! It is for want of some such resting place for the imagination that the Greek statues are little else than specious forms.
• Women possess to a marvelous degree the art of giving color by specious arguments to the recriminations in which they indulge.
• The Dukes of Burgundy and Brittany, as well as several Norman noblemen, had specious titles.
• Thus the bandits of that generation occupied the specious attitude of opposition to oppressive governments.
• The reasoning of Catholics on this matter is specious.
• To all this, duly set forth in a specious contract, the girl affixed her signature.
• The managers for the commons might have opposed this reasoning by many specious and even solid arguments.
• These are facts that cannot be argued away by any specious if or and.
• And as the priest appointed for the trial was pretty sure of coming off the conqueror, the whole was looked upon as a more specious kind of sacrifice.
• This objection would scarcely occur to any instructed mind, though it may possess a certain degree of specious plausibility for the untaught.
• It is specious, but convenient, to discover a date at which a change of this kind may be said to occur.
• Many were executed publicly, and some, against whom an impeachment was likely to prove less specious, were secretly assassinated.
• But reason could not justify the specious and noble principles of the disciples of Plato.
• The files of English newspapers are the best history of the period, and will, by their facts and comments, hereafter confront specious and false historians.
• When the imagination had subsided, and the mind was no longer agitated by the horror of the action, it became at leisure to look round for specious additians.

Similar words containing SPECIOU without suffix s

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