Sentence examples for kind of specious from inspiring English sources
"I think an apology is kind of specious," said Jim Kirkham, who has played in several bridge championships.
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?
This was the horror of appearing scared of al-Qaida or whomsoever the US decided was the enemy – while appearing, like the great appeaser of the second world war, to have rationalised this fear into some kind of specious policy.
And when jazz didn't provide the necessary funds, he turned readily to petty crime, which, along with the addiction, kept him in constant trouble with the law.The worst part of this harrowing chronicle is Baker's treatment of other people, particularly women, whom he could still charm with a kind of specious, fallen-angel sincerity.
The longer we stay away from the moon – it's been more than 40 years since the last moonwalk – the more tempting it becomes for us to think that the Apollo programme, which got there between 1963 and 1972, was some kind of specious propaganda by the US government.
The whole menace-of-prolixity contention "is the kind of specious argument that I would be using if I were making the case for the typewriter," said Andy Rooney, Mr. Safer's colleague on "60 Minutes," who began using WordPerfect a decade ago.
"India's a great place for all kinds of specious regulation to make money".
They use the phrase to make all kinds of specious arguments.
And that we can't or won't always do that creates a horrible kind of cognitive dissonance, which we bury in all kinds of specious and ultimately patronizing notions of what's best for those who need the help.
And that we can't or won't always do that creates a horrible cognitive dissonance, which we bury in all kinds of specious and ultimately patronizing notions of what's best for those who need the help".
This is kind of a specious argument from critics of Holder, as well.
