Sentence examples for made specious from inspiring English sources

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

'And I argue with them if they start to make specious points,' he said.

In places in the book, Comey seems to lay traps for the notoriously thin-skinned president, who is known for making specious claims about vote tallies and crowd sizes despite the facts and long after the fact.

We see bamboo here and there on CrunchGear (the Dodocase, laptops, bikes), but I'm usually suspicious of bamboo-type products, because they usually make specious claims of greenness.

But it does jibe with the strategy of a president who propelled himself to the White House by making specious immigration claims.

Vernon goaded Wentworth into an ill-considered, badly planned assault on the fort, an outlying strong-point of Cartagena, which Vernon refused to support with the fleet making specious excuses about the depth of the harbor.

As we have seen in recent years, Latino voters are the targets of a number of voter restriction laws including a series of voter identification laws that mask discrimination by making specious arguments about voter fraud.

Zamora's removal was made on specious grounds, using a constitutional technicality.

It was in the Times where Michaels made his specious arguments against banning chlorofluorocarbons, and that's where he claimed earlier this year that the world's average temperatures have been "flat" for nearly two decades.

He added: "Why she would make this specious claim, I have no idea".

The generals make the specious charge that recent unrest was caused by "foreign hands".