Sentence examples for how specious from inspiring English sources

This year Mr. D'Amato has eschewed any serious talk about issues and, in his desperation, has flailed about in search of some subject -- any subject, no matter how specious, trivial or unfair -- with which to tar his opponent.

In the preface to the first "Poor Richard's Almanack," Saunders addressed his "Courteous Reader": "I might in this place attempt to gain thy Favour, by declaring that I write Almanacks with no other View than that of the publick Good; but in this I should not be sincere; and Men are now a-days too wise to be deceiv'd by Pretences how specious soever.

In our next article we will explain just how specious their arguments are.

What is needed is a credible account of how neighbouring specious presents are related to one another which permits phenomenal continuity to run without impediment between specious presents, as well as within them – or so proponents of Strong Continuity will maintain.

The next task is to examine how individual specious presents, construed in a broadly Extensional manner, combine to form continuous streams of consciousness.

How long is this specious present?

Had they ever shown any previous interest in the liberties of groups which rarely go hunting - asylum seekers or poll-tax protesters, for instance - this claim might have gathered a kind of specious credibility; but how many did?

It sells itself as qualitative judgment and always arrives wreathed in a lot of specious guff about how "the music on the album is the only thing that matters", but if the Mercury prize has any real purpose for existing, it should probably be to alert a wider audience to a great album they haven't heard, but might conceivably like.

O'Keeffe was sanguine enough with the situation to let them get on with their twittering without comment from her. Juan, silly boy, would occasionally shape up to them with specious ramblings about how it would be if he was a girl and O'Keeffe an old man, which tended to make things still muddier.

In short, how long is a typical specious present?

It's not the first time Uber has made specious claims about how its ride-sharing service 'reduces traffic'.