specious

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This is a specious argument, to be sure.

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Quick take

plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of specious gathered in one view.

adjective

plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

adjective

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for specious.

adjective

plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

adjective

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

Example sentences

This is a specious argument, to be sure.

' is due to a lack of insight on the part of 'male programmers' is specious.

"Even specious benchmarks would help more than zero benchmarks.

To the extent that his choice of Mac over Windows et al is specious, it is not a claim that is supported by your comment.

It claims "no loss of abilities removed", which is clearly false, and the proposed benefits are highly specious.

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

You have beliefs that are in no way grounded in reality, and the numbers you continue to cite to make your argument are between nonsensical and specious.

Zero benchmarks is definitely better than specious benchmarks.

Propping Chomsky up as somehow representative of all linguists is pretty specious and a bit irritating.

Two quotes come to mind:"Never send a human to do a machine's job."\n-- Agent Smith"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

Makes you wonder what people could accomplish if we could live more like Buckminster Fuller's ideals:“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

The idea that the existence of "boring" work at a company is an indication that the company did or is doing something wrong is specious, and as a user of lots of software, I really hope this mindset doesn't become common.

As mentioned, this is 99% a solved problem.>> “Javascript cryptography hasn’t implemented well-known standards such as PGP; such a high-level language can’t be trusted with cryptography.”This is one point from the original article that I think is specious.