Sentence examples for make specious from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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.

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".

Critics of reform make the specious argument that states have the right to set the rules for federal elections.

Most others, like Marco Rubio, play the "I'm not a scientist" card or make the specious claim that climate action will be really expensive (it won't).

As this diagram makes illustrates, specious presents can be more closely packed than sequence of tones depicted in Figure 11.

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