Sentence examples for a specious point from inspiring English sources

It was a low blow and a specious point, but he had a job to do and was being very well paid.

'And I argue with them if they start to make specious points,' he said.

Because her sometimes-preposterous book mixes specious points with sharply incisive ones, and her good ideas are worth the trouble.

Other criteria perhaps involving other sense modalities might lead to slightly different spans of time, but the interesting point is that, if there is such a specious present, it cannot be explained solely by ordinary memory traces: if one hears a "ticktock" of a clock, the "tick" is not remembered in the way in which a "ticktock" 10 minutes ago is remembered.

[Update: As pointed out by a commenter, this may be a specious argument to use.] What's most telling is the self-conscious way the praise must always be justified in (pseudo) intellectual terms, as they try to hitch their ego to the train of the artist.

So, for example, a particular spot of light might be perceived as motionless in a specious present S1 occurring very shortly after t, and that same spot might be perceived as being in motion in a later specious present S2.

McLellan is quick to point out that comparing mechanical and electronic devices is often a specious exercise.

This is a specious argument.

That is a specious argument.

That is, in part, a specious argument.

This isn't a specious argument.