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
Will not your unwonted lenity, your present preposterous supineness, make the detestable rumour wear a look of the utmost speciousness, nay, of irrefragable truth?
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig
