Sentence examples for specious claim from inspiring English sources

He added: "Why she would make this specious claim, I have no idea".

But the real departure from the Constitution is their specious claim to a right to impose their religious views on millions of Americans who do not share them.

I've also heard them championed for their added security, but that strikes me as a specious claim — they still have glass windows, don't they?

Undaunted, Helms moved to have King's F.B.I. files declassified, so that the Senate might explore the specious claim that he was a Communist stooge.

"To say that the prosecutors were being cut out of the process is a specious claim, and it has everything to do with who will be the ultimate decision maker in the courtroom — the judge or the prosecutor".

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.

But she keeps specious claims about synergy between food and entertainment to the minimum.

The Times went out of business after readers grew angry with its specious claims, outright lies, and unwillingness to make entertaining headline puns about war.

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 defence of atavistic privilege, which invariably proceeds on the basis of specious claims about natural hierarchy, is the hardy, incivil part of conservatism.

"There's a lot of false claims out there and a lot of specious claims to what all technologies can do," he said.