Sentence examples similar to it was speciously from inspiring English sources

Bite Beauty's Agave Lip Mask would be speciously distinguished from, say, a lip balm if it didn't actually stick around for hours.

But it is also sentimental in the literary sense: an exhausted form has been speciously revived.

Growing up in India, I developed a keen awareness of how dietary taboos around meat could be speciously used to assert caste or religious superiority, often violently.

"It was worth it".

(It was).

It was, wasn't it?

It was what it was.

It wasn't, was it?

It was worth it, though.

It wasn't worth it.

But it was worth it.