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specious
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of SPECIOUS
[more specious; most specious] formal
: falsely appearing to be fair, just, or right : appearing to be true but actually false似是而非的；貌似正确的
- a specious argument似是而非的论点
- He justified his actions with specious reasoning.他用貌似正确的推理为自己的行为辩护。
— speciously
adverb, formal— speciousness
noun, formal [noncount]- the speciousness of his reasoning他那貌似正确的推理
speciously adverb
speciousness noun
Did you know?
Specious comes from Latin speciosus, meaning "beautiful" or "plausible," and Middle English speakers used it to mean "visually pleasing." In time, specious had begun to suggest an attractiveness that was superficial or deceptive, and, subsequently, the word's neutral "pleasing" sense faded into obsolescence.
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Example Sentences
Forty years ago I was not yet thirty, and my father still held to the hope that I would come to my senses, abandon the practice of journalism, and follow a career in one of the Wall Street money trades. As a young man during the Great Depression he had labored briefly as a city-room reporter for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, and he knew that the game was poorly paid and usually rigged, more often than not a matter of converting specious rumor into dubious fact. 
Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, February 2004 By and large, they made these changes with specious explanations or no explanation at all. Today, when curricula list rhetoric as a subject, it usually means simply the study of how to write effectively. Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, (1982) 2002 One must always guard the interests of one's constituency in the public forum even when its claims are weak or perhaps specious, lest one's opponents steal the march in the never-ending battle for resources or public support. Robert Jackall et al., Image Makers, 2000 He justified his actions with specious reasoning. a specious argument that really does not stand up under close examination
Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, February 2004 By and large, they made these changes with specious explanations or no explanation at all. Today, when curricula list rhetoric as a subject, it usually means simply the study of how to write effectively. Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, (1982) 2002 One must always guard the interests of one's constituency in the public forum even when its claims are weak or perhaps specious, lest one's opponents steal the march in the never-ending battle for resources or public support. Robert Jackall et al., Image Makers, 2000 He justified his actions with specious reasoning. a specious argument that really does not stand up under close examination Recent Examples on the Web Trump and his allies furiously pressured authorities in those states to replace Biden’s electors with ones for him on specious or nonexistent allegations that his victory was stolen. Michael Balsamo And Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2022 Trump and his allies furiously pressured authorities in those states to replace Biden’s electors with ones for him on specious or nonexistent allegations that his victory was stolen. Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022 Two Black teens, Ernest Knox, 16, and Oscar Daniel, 18, would hang after the most specious of trials. New York Times, 19 May 2022 In April, cops in Georgia pulled over a busload of mostly Black college athletes for the most specious of reasons. Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022 What would be the monetization for their specious activities? Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022 However different the particulars are from the current American show trial, The Confession still goes to the heart of specious judicial behavior — and the nightmare of a country and its media accepting it as normal. Armond White, National Review, 15 June 2022 But how the studies arrive at these error rates is dubious and without anti-expert experts to explain why these studies are flawed, courts and juries can and have been bamboozled into accepting specious claims. David L. Faigman, Nicholas Scurich, Scientific American, 25 May 2022 Trump had demanded audits and trumpeted specious findings as evidence of voter fraud. David Jackson, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022 See More
Michael Balsamo And Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2022 Trump and his allies furiously pressured authorities in those states to replace Biden’s electors with ones for him on specious or nonexistent allegations that his victory was stolen. Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022 Two Black teens, Ernest Knox, 16, and Oscar Daniel, 18, would hang after the most specious of trials. New York Times, 19 May 2022 In April, cops in Georgia pulled over a busload of mostly Black college athletes for the most specious of reasons. Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022 What would be the monetization for their specious activities? Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022 However different the particulars are from the current American show trial, The Confession still goes to the heart of specious judicial behavior — and the nightmare of a country and its media accepting it as normal. Armond White, National Review, 15 June 2022 But how the studies arrive at these error rates is dubious and without anti-expert experts to explain why these studies are flawed, courts and juries can and have been bamboozled into accepting specious claims. David L. Faigman, Nicholas Scurich, Scientific American, 25 May 2022 Trump had demanded audits and trumpeted specious findings as evidence of voter fraud. David Jackson, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, visually pleasing, from Latin speciosus beautiful, plausible, from species
First Known Use
1513, in the meaning defined at sense 3
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