Sentence examples similar to a specious assertion from inspiring English sources

On the merits of the case, the best supporters could come up with to justify the marriage ban was a tired, and thoroughly specious, assertion that treating gay people differently when it comes to marriage does not offend the Constitution because "sexual relationships between men and women naturally produce children".

More recently, a government spokesman speaking to reporters about a fatal train crash brushed aside questions about some specious assertions with a flip of the hand and a now-famous line: "Regardless of whether or not you believe it; either way, I believe it.."... Let's face it: Biden arrives at the table with a weaker hand than he'd like.

We "writers" would call your assertion a "specious argument" or in Wheel of Fortune speak, "comparing apples and oranges".

This 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.

There is something disconcerting about a work of art that celebrates such a specious cultural force.