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The Press dilated speciously on the economy practised under the system and on its general advantageousness.

These acts of prerogative were most speciously excused by the vices of a popular election.

It is possible enough, therefore, that the Indian historiographer may have been right, and not merely speciously ingenious.

This wrong, we are speciously told by those who seek to defend it, is not our original sin.

Old Pompey had conducted his transactions largely from his buggy, lending them a speciously casual aspect.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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