Sentence examples for a specious idea from inspiring English sources

The left ought to rediscover its faith in some of the things that once embodied its collectivism – social housing, schools that serve communities rather than a specious idea of "choice" – while belatedly realising that they ought to be pulled away from the big, distant state, and returned to the grassroots.

Albee's parents paid little attention to him; he was a bourgeois prop, meant to complete their specious idea of "family".

A quote from Peter Medawar, a British scientist who wrote a famous critique of a book of specious ideas about evolution, comes to mind: "Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself".

Bromwich understands Burke as a connoisseur of delusion, of specious ideas whose apparent plausibility wins support for misguided or dangerously sinister causes.

A lot of people take TED very seriously, and might lend credence to specious ideas if stamped with TED credentials.

The comparison of Trump v. Hawaii to Dred Scott hinges on the argument that the two cases are similarly egregious, turning on specious ideas about racial difference: then against black people and now against Muslim people.

Their boosters see them as marvels of concision, but one person's idea of streamlining is another's idea of a specious and ethically doubtful simplicity.

So I thought that was a specious argument.

This is a specious argument.

That is a specious argument.

That is, in part, a specious argument.