Sentence examples for specious complaints from inspiring English sources

If governments systematically target the BBC with allegations of 'institutional bias', is there no concession for missing the one legitimate point among the scores of specious complaints?

The charge is specious.

Police tend to point to the low numbers of sustained complaints as evidence that they were specious charges filed in retaliation for lawful arrests.

Consider the first charge: it's specious.

The mine's critics focus on two things: its environmental impact, and its alleged lack of benefits for local people, many of whom are poor farmers.Many of the environmental complaints, such as claims that the mine has polluted Cajamarca's drinking water with cyanide or mercury, look specious.

And all specious.

It's completely specious.

It was specious.

The reasoning is specious.

This is a specious argument.

This first appeal is specious.