Sentence examples for most specious from inspiring English sources

The most specious arguments against "Klinghoffer" elide the terrorists' bigotry with the attitudes of the creators.

Those who commission programmes for the boss-class of women commit the most specious of all the intellectual crimes intrinsic to reality TV, of thinking production superfluous.

A. I did turn on [the TV] not too long ago, and Barbara Walters is on talking about the existence of angels, and "could they be there?" It's just the most specious kind of news.

While racial discrimination is overwhelmingly directed against black people in the U.S., much of the nation and the media are poised to go berserk over the most specious allegations of racism against whites.

The book's most specious descriptive touch -- no mean distinction -- is the news that Mr. Ball tied plastic grocery bags around his feet so that he would not ruin his shoes while visiting the cemetery on a muddy day.

These are, after all, the same awards that deemed Werner Herzog's epochal Grizzly Man unworthy of a nomination in the same category a few years ago on the most specious of technicalities.

Obama hadn't robustly challenged Romney's most extravagant and specious claims, so Biden did and wouldn't let anything Ryan said sail by.

The liquor store owners, who are of course the main opponents of any change, have tons of arguments, most of them specious.

But the logic is specious because most drugs have multiple actions.

The contention that the president exceeded his authority in the airstrikes on Libya seems specious to most war power experts.

He contended that the traditional concept of the just war, though approved by St. Augustine and most later theologians, is specious, for any ruler who wants to start a war will find a way to convince himself that his cause is just.