Thesaurus / specious
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Sending in our ground forces to “fight them on foreign soil so we won’t have to fight them on our own” is a specious argument.
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR ANYMOREKARL MARLANTESAUGUST 26, 2021TIMEThe performance-enhancing benefits of marijuana are, if not specious, at least very much up for debate.
SHA'CARRI RICHARDSON'S SUSPENSION FOR MARIJUANA DEFIES COMMON SENSESEAN GREGORYJULY 2, 2021TIMEAds promoting fraudulent sanitizers and specious coronavirus remedies or linking to fly-by-night websites selling overpriced masks still clog up the digital ad supply chain, companies that monitor advertising creative for programmatic ad firms say.
COVID-19 SCAM ADS DECLINE, BUT AI SYSTEMS RISK CATCHING LEGITIMATE VACCINE MESSAGES IN THEIR TRAPSKATE KAYEMAY 10, 2021DIGIDAYIt was notorious that she claimed the sovereignty of the isthmus on specious, nay, on solid, grounds.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYThese proverbs remind us of Bacon: "Specious words confound virtue."
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDMr. Grote's speech on this occasion contained many specious arguments, and it appears to have had a great effect upon the house.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANThere is no cruelty which they do not practice upon each other under this specious pretext.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERThe mediocrities allow themselves to be dissuaded by the specious obstacles—the great ones never.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGOSuch will be their specious professions; but the real truth of the case will be wholly different.
THE HISTORIES OF POLYBIUS, VOL. II (OF 2)POLYBIUSYet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBONWORDS RELATED TO SPECIOUS
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