Sentence examples for be specious from inspiring English sources
adjective
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
- This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.
Much of this will be specious.
These reports appear to be specious.
And his own reasoning in these pages tends to be specious or skewed.
Correlation is not necessarily causation, and conclusions based on just five data points can sometimes prove to be specious.
To justify his actions, he persuaded Americans that Saddam Hussein had chemical, biological and, especially, nuclear weapons programs — a claim that proved to be specious.
Clearly, it would be specious to equate what colonizing Europeans did to the indigenous peoples of the Americas with what Wal-Mart's done to the United States.
The reasoning is specious.
This first appeal is specious.
Methodologically, the process is specious.
Such arguments are specious at best.
