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Synonyms for specious
adj misleading- deceptive
- erroneous
- false
- inaccurate
- incorrect
- plausible
- spurious
- untrue
- apparent
- apparently right
- beguiling
- captious
- casuistic
- colorable
- credible
- delusive
- empty
- fallacious
- flattering
- hollow
- idle
- illogical
- likely
- nugatory
- ostensible
- ostentatious
- presumable
- presumptive
- pretentious
- probable
- seeming
- sophistic
- sophistical
- sophisticated
- unsound
- vain
- wrong
Antonyms for specious
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More words related to specious
Pecksniffian
adjective. hypocritical
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-spoken
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
apparent
adjective. seeming, not proven real
colorable
adjective. plausible
deceptive
adjective. dishonest
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.