Sentence examples for more specious than from inspiring English sources

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.

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?

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.

But in agreeing to the cap, still £10 more than the Football Supporters' Federation campaigned so impressively for, the clubs have at least made a meaningful gesture that will save their most loyal fans money and undermines their more specious arguments.

"This teary-eyed compassion that the Conservatives have suddenly discovered for the Green Party is one of the more specious excuses I've seen," he added.

When Binet's scale traveled to America, it was put to more specious uses.

But his interview with Ed Snowden was yet another in a long, long line of deferential, uninformed, unchallenging genuflections before a guy whose story and motivations are more than a little specious.

Because among other things, his lawyer, Richard Barnett, supposedly gave the government's specious, unsupported arguments "more respect than they deserved".

If Trump becomes President, he may want to do more than jail Clinton on specious charges.

Once, when the town tax office attempted to raise her taxes under the specious claim that she owned more land than recorded, she produced 200-year-old property deeds.