Sentence examples for as specious as from inspiring English sources

The claim is as specious as it is ridiculous," the post read.

There are those who believe everyone on the right to be racist, which is surely as specious as the president's foreign birth.

Why do authors limit themselves to somber dialogue that they consider period-appropriate, a compulsion as specious as associating France with French fries jokes?

LOS ANGELES — Of all the great self-deceptions perpetrated among the dieting public, none is perhaps as specious as the notion that frozen yogurt is somehow health food.

Their reasons are just as specious as when they were attacking the Jewish radicals of the East End in the last century.

Just as literature is opening up to cross many genres in a single work, photography is opening up to incorporate many genres and ideas — portraiture, street photography, gender philosophy, advertising, and so on — the better to emphasize the falseness of anything as specious as a single truth.

Beards Recent contentions that we have reached "peak beard" will remain specious, as long as GoT is on our screens.

And Mr. Steel's appeal to musical probity here, too, may strike some as specious.

The notion that games are popular purely because of their violence always struck me as specious.

In an erudite and combative new biography, he presents many of Tocqueville's misgivings about democracy as specious and reactionary.

Marcus Fysh, Tory MP for Yeovil, dismissed the Treasury report as "specious bollocks", while former defence secretary Liam Fox claimed it was "disreputable, shabby and misleading".