The phrase "a specious claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement or assertion that appears to be true or valid but is actually misleading or false.
Example: "The politician's promise to lower taxes was nothing more than a specious claim designed to win votes."
Alternatives: "a deceptive assertion" or "a misleading statement".
I've also heard them championed for their added security, but that strikes me as a specious claim — they still have glass windows, don't they?
"To say that the prosecutors were being cut out of the process is a specious claim, and it has everything to do with who will be the ultimate decision maker in the courtroom — the judge or the prosecutor".
When pressed over the big scams that blight his government, especially over the dodgy sale of the 2G telecom spectrum in 2008, he often retreats to a specious claim that voters, who returned Congress to power in 2009, were not bothered by earlier signs of wrongdoing.
The center has taken-up many notorious causes including a failed defense of so-called "intelligent design" and a losing effort to force Planned Parenthood to tell patients that abortion is linked to breast cancer, which is a specious claim.
However, as the police executive in charge of security at the Pan Am Games, Saunders also said that the tunnel would have been an "eyesore" to security groups at the games which seems like a specious claim to make about an underground hole.
However, as the police executive in charge of security at the Pan Am Games, Saunders also said that the tunnel would have been an "eyesore" to security groups at the games, which seems like a specious claim to make about an underground hole.
But the real departure from the Constitution is their specious claim to a right to impose their religious views on millions of Americans who do not share them.
The move, based on the specious claim that a sudden surge of imported steel was responsible for the domestic industry's woes, has harmed the overall economy and antagonized the nation's trading partners.
Most others, like Marco Rubio, play the "I'm not a scientist" card or make the specious claim that climate action will be really expensive (it won't).
Undaunted, Helms moved to have King's F.B.I. files declassified, so that the Senate might explore the specious claim that he was a Communist stooge.
Why don't you just go ahead and throw in a specious damage claim while you're at it?
