speciousness

Example Sentences

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It declined to dig into the research and warn other courts across the country about the speciousness of the warrior gene theory.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

It was the original 1932 Scarface that laid out the speciousness of the genre.

From The Guardian • Jan. 8, 2017

I was among those who spent years protesting the speciousness of this claim, until Foster finally was forced to drop it and concede that John Ford wrote the poem.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2011

Like one of those smart middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of is disguised by its topicality.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011

We may very properly say that a fallacy is more or less specious, but we can not properly say that a fallacy is specious, since without speciousness we can have no fallacies.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly