Sentence examples for more specious from inspiring English sources

Such factoids might seem more specious if the periodic table were not such a familiar and popular scientific artifact.

Surely now there are no more specious arguments over the economic, humanitarian, political aims of Aid, Trade, Debt, Investment, Health, Growth.

A cronut looks more specious because it's also new and cool; the same goes for wider trends that have swept Australia this decade.

None is more specious than the Right-Handed Hitter Conjecture, which holds that on steal attempts left-handers have to throw around righties, who outnumber hitters from the other side.

The play tries to soften his image by ignoring some of his more specious notions about race and civilization, and by underscoring his despair at the death of his son Quentin in World War I.

Theresa May probably feared an onslaught of xenophobic remarks – "What could be more specious than a belief that is really the absence of belief, a luxury belief for cynics and intellectuals?

Yet that phrasing is patently vague — useful when a writer wants to come down hard on a steroid user, but markedly fishy when applied to some of the more ethically specious past inductees.

Again, if we were left independent, it was only because they thought they saw their way to empire more clearly by specious language and by the paths of policy than by those of force.

"I cannot think of a more egregious and specious legal opinion - admitting that the torture occurred but ruling the confession admissible and allowing the conviction to stand," Mr Bassiouni said.

Wemple was more graceful, calling it "specious".

Your argument that "better-prepared" is merely a euphemism for "more intelligent" is as specious as your argument on slacking off.