Sentence examples similar to a specious alibi from inspiring English sources

A bit shocked by Noriega's specious alibi, I asked if some of his underlings might have tried to do him an "unbidden favor" by getting rid of Spadafora.

This is a specious argument.

That is a specious argument.

That is, in part, a specious argument.

This isn't a specious argument.

What if its plans were blocked by a specious patent?

But in this twilight world "normal" is a specious concept.

So I thought that was a specious argument.

In the morning, also at Vnukovo airport, Andrei Babitsky is detained on a specious pretext.

That's a specious complaint.

But this is a specious argument.