speciously
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Podcasters validate their fears and doubts, cite fallacious research, or more speciously, quote the all-purpose source of “some” or “they” without evidence.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2024
He pointed speciously to an episode involving Thomas Jefferson as an example.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
In Taylor’s work, the dream is not to finally and speciously separate these two worlds of struggle and success, as O. J. Simpson notoriously attempted to do, but to insist on their relation.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
Galloway, the unanimous, tech-savvy decision in the cellphone cases—Riley—and the speciously unanimous, yet nevertheless correct, result in McCullen. I should've adopted Dahlia’s term “faux-nanimous,” which is definitely snettier—snarkier, better, and neater.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2014
This theory owes its origin to a speciously lucky guess which was first disclosed to the public in 1832, and won for a time almost universal acceptance.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
