Sentence examples for a spurious argument from inspiring English sources

It is a spurious argument.

It's a spurious argument on its face.

But that is a spurious argument as far as I am concerned.

The jury may have found that persuasive, but it's a spurious argument.

It was as if he was implying this would stir the other three into hastening back, a spurious argument if ever there was one.

Using a spurious argument (that Handel, by 1739, was moving beyond "static conventions") to achieve a sensible goal (a two-and-a-half-hour performance), Mr. Bass dropped one of the Araia pieces and trimmed some of Handel's arias.

This procedure paved the way for a diabolically spurious argument on behalf of "Caruso 2000".

That was in October 2006, and the then foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, used the spurious argument that an inquiry could send a dangerous signal to insurgents that Britain did not have the determination to stick it out in Iraq.

"I think what we're clearly seeing is a political maneuver, using a spurious legal argument as a pretext for shutting off a Cabinet debate that was probably leaning towards staying in the agreement," Paul Bodnar, the former climate chief of the White House's National Security Council, recently told Climatewire.

In association-sponsored commercials on television and radio, homemakers spout the spurious argument that such a tax would make it more difficult for them to feed their families.

The response: This is the most spurious argument of all, and it's just a ridiculous one.