specious

How To Use specious In A Sentence

• I've always found this kind of argument a little specious, since most people don't know and could care less about when a composer wrote a work.
• No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
• He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.
• He offers a speciously complicated analysis.
• Behe’s claim of the experimental refutability of ID, made under oath, is specious. An Experimental Test of ID? Really? - The Panda's Thumb
• The Press dilated speciously on the economy practised under the system and on its general advantageousness. The Siege of Kimberley
• Muris: as a decisionmaker, when a party insists on fighting an obviously specious point, it casts doubt on other points. Archive 2009-06-01
• The nature versus nurture debate was specious, but not for the reasons he had supposed. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
• It is unlikely that the Duke was convinced by such specious arguments.