Sentence examples for it's specious from inspiring English sources
Consider the first charge: it's specious.
"It's specious to argue that we need masks when the incinerator itself is going to destroy these weapons," Colonel Williams said.
But it also lays the documentary open to the charges that dog every historical re-creation: it's specious, and it looks like a school play.
So when Obama says he's going to tax the rich to help pay for the health care initiative, it's specious reasoning because raising my taxes is for the total deficit, inclusive of more than $100 billion, annually now since 2003, for incremental defense.
It is specious to boast that it should be exported widely, even within Europe Germanyy's combination of wealth, wage discipline and post-war obsession with consensus is pretty unusual.
It is specious to focus on the latter condition while ignoring the former.
The specious present is perhaps not really specious: the idea that it was specious depended on an idea that the real (nonspecious) present had to be instantaneous.
The White House argument is that this is how Obama structured his White House operation, so it is specious to say he has "skipped" a meeting that was not actually scheduled.
And it is specious, and very undemocratic, for President Bush and other members of his administration to imply that raising legitimate questions about our nation's actions is wrong.
Pellegrini was occasionally placed in awkward situations because everyone knew he was only keeping the seat warm, but he was hardly stabbed in the back and it is specious of Seluk to suggest otherwise.
