Thesaurus / specious
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
It 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 MACAULAY
These proverbs remind us of Bacon: "Specious words confound virtue."
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
Mr. 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. NOLAN
There is no cruelty which they do not practice upon each other under this specious pretext.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
The mediocrities allow themselves to be dissuaded by the specious obstacles—the great ones never.
TOILERS OF THE SEAVICTOR HUGO
Such will be their specious professions; but the real truth of the case will be wholly different.
Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious.
All instincts of humanity are cynically defied on the specious ground of military necessity.
RAEMAEKERS' CARTOONSLOUIS RAEMAEKERS
And the Duchess gave weight to other considerations—all human, yet all in some measure specious.
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTT
I gave you, in my long letter of Wednesday and Thursday last, reasons why you ought to mistrust that specious Tomlinson.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSON
WORDS RELATED TO SPECIOUS
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- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
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- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
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- off
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- forsworn
- hollow
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- inaccurate
- inconstant
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- inexact
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- meretricious
- misleading
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- off
- out of line
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- prevaricating
- recreant
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- askew
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- fluffed
- in error
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- misfigured
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- mistaken
- not precise
- not right
- not working
- off-target
- on the wrong track
- out
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- fluffed
- in error
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- inexact
- miscalculated
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- not precise
- not right
- not working
- off-target
- on the wrong track
- out
- out of commission
- out of line
- out of order
- perverse
- rotten
- sophistical
- specious
- spurious
- ungrounded
- unsatisfactory
- unsound
- unsubstantial
- untrue
- wide
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