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specious
specious
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specious
WORDS RELATED TO
SPECIOUS
erroneous
adjective
wrong, incorrect
all off
all wet
amiss
askew
awry
defective
fallacious
false
faulty
flawed
inaccurate
inexact
invalid
misguided
mistaken
off
specious
spurious
unfounded
unsound
untrue
way off
wrong number
excusable
adjective
allowable
all right
condonable
defensible
exculpatory
explainable
fair
forgivable
justifiable
minor
moderate
not too bad
okay
pardonable
passable
permissible
plausible
reasonable
remittable
reprievable
slight
specious
temperate
tenable
trivial
understandable
venial
vindicable
vindicatory
warrantable
within limits
false
adjective
wrong, made up
apocryphal
beguiling
bogus
casuistic
concocted
contrary to fact
cooked-up
counterfactual
deceitful
deceiving
delusive
dishonest
distorted
erroneous
ersatz
fake
fallacious
fanciful
faulty
fictitious
fishy
fraudulent
illusive
imaginary
improper
inaccurate
incorrect
inexact
invalid
lying
mendacious
misleading
misrepresentative
mistaken
off the mark
phony
sham
sophistical
specious
spurious
trumped up
unfounded
unreal
unsound
untrue
untruthful
gilt
adjective
gilded
alloyed
gaudy
gleaming
glittering
golden
lustrous
meretricious
overlaid
painted
plated
shiny
showy
sparkling
specious
tinsel
tinseled
varnished
hollow
adjective
meaningless
empty
fruitless
futile
idle
nugatory
otiose
pointless
specious
unavailing
useless
vain
worthless
hypocritical
adjective
deceitful, pretending
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
pharisaical
phony
pietistic
pious
sanctimonious
self-righteous
smooth
smooth-spoken
smooth-tongued
snide
specious
spurious
two-faced
unctuous
unnatural
unreliable
illogical
adjective
not making sense
absurd
casuistic
cockeyed
fallacious
false
fatuous
faulty
groundless
hollow
implausible
inconclusive
incongruous
inconsequent
inconsistent
incorrect
invalid
irrational
irrelevant
mad
meaningless
not following
nutty
off the wall
preposterous
screwy
self-contradictory
senseless
sophistic
sophistical
specious
spurious
unconnected
unproved
unreasonable
unscientific
unsound
unsubstantial
untenable
wacky
without basis
without foundation
inaccurate
adjective
erroneous
all wet
careless
counterfactual
defective
discrepant
doesn't wash
fallacious
false
faulty
imprecise
in error
incorrect
inexact
mistaken
off
off base
out
specious
unfaithful
unreliable
unsound
untrue
way-off
wide
wild
wrong
incorrect
adjective
wrong
counterfactual
erroneous
false
faulty
flawed
imprecise
improper
inaccurate
inappropriate
inexact
mistaken
not trustworthy
out
specious
unfitting
unreliable
unseemly
unsound
unsuitable
untrue
way off
wide of the mark
wrong number
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