Sentence examples similar to a specious concern from inspiring English sources

(How I'd like to be able to relive that, to hear how she'd even broached the subject, let alone how she'd smoke-screened her own selfishness and betrayal with some specious concern for Katie's well-being — let's not rock the boat and you'll be better off here with your father and your school and your teachers and it's not the end but just the beginning, buck up, you'll see).

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

It's a specious sense of the writer letting you in on the business of composition".

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?

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.