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Definitions for: Specious [adj] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
[adj] plausible but false; "a specious claim"
[adj] plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
Webster (1913) Definition: Spe"cious, a. [L. speciosusgood-looking, beautiful,
specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. F.
sp['e]coeux. See Species.]
1. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or
look; showy.
Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye.
--Bp.
Richardson.
The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward
rites and specious forms Religion satisfied.
--Milton.
2. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct,
but not so in reality; appearing well at first view;
plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
Misled for a moment by the specious names of
religion, liberty, and property. --Macaulay.
In consequence of their greater command of specious
expression. --J. Morley.
Syn: Plausible; showy; ostensible; colorable; feasible. See
Plausible. -- Spe"xious*ly, adv. --
Spe"cious*ness, n.
Synonyms: false, gilded, insincere, invalid, meretricious, spurious
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