Origin: Latin
suffix -ous
Specious has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Adjective
1
plausible but false
"a specious claim"
"spurious inferences"
2
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
"meretricious praise"
"a meretricious argument"
3
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
Example Sentences
"a specious claim"
adjective
"spurious inferences"
adjective
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
adjective
"meretricious praise"
adjective
"a meretricious argument"
adjective
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