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speciousness
noun as in fallacy
Strong matches
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The tech titan is expected to be on the defensive as Republicans increasingly criticize the social network for censoring them and showing a bias against conservatives, based on specious evidence.
"I'll not be missed," he assured her with some conscious speciousness.
He would not allow himself to disparage the problem before him by any speciousness of worldly convenience.
Sir Adrian halted a pace, a little moved by the speciousness of the pleading.
Amidst all the speciousness of their claims, she had "found" them false.
Yet there is a speciousness about such an excuse, and we will leave it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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