Sentence examples for may be specious from inspiring English sources
And while it may be specious to build a theory on an empirical sample of two, the experience of belonging to such a counterintuitive migration seems to produce writers preoccupied with places and the spaces in between them.
Aquinas's distinction between anger and compassion may be specious, since it seems that both could be treated in the same way.
The present may be specious, but it confers real privileges, which a particular reading of the past can sustain or undermine.
Much of this will be specious.
Under current law, there is no apparent redress if Trump can persuade someone at the Justice Department to fire Mueller for "good cause," however specious that cause may be.
Now the ICHD-III beta committee could pause there and say the new definition conforms by the definition of "to make like" (Oxford English Dictionary), since like gives some flexibility, although that may be seen a rather insouciant, if not specious, approach.
Add a specious recession-fighting rationale and the temptation may be irresistible.
It is possible (in principle) for specious presents to be separated by very little indeed: 'it may be that the whole series of experiences is literally continuous (or at least dense)', or so Foster suggests (1991: 248).
The reasoning is specious.
This first appeal is specious.
