Sentence examples for specious ideas from inspiring English sources

A lot of people take TED very seriously, and might lend credence to specious ideas if stamped with TED credentials.

Bromwich understands Burke as a connoisseur of delusion, of specious ideas whose apparent plausibility wins support for misguided or dangerously sinister causes.

The comparison of Trump v. Hawaii to Dred Scott hinges on the argument that the two cases are similarly egregious, turning on specious ideas about racial difference: then against black people and now against Muslim people.

A quote from Peter Medawar, a British scientist who wrote a famous critique of a book of specious ideas about evolution, comes to mind: "Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive himself".

Albee's parents paid little attention to him; he was a bourgeois prop, meant to complete their specious idea of "family".

The left ought to rediscover its faith in some of the things that once embodied its collectivism – social housing, schools that serve communities rather than a specious idea of "choice" – while belatedly realising that they ought to be pulled away from the big, distant state, and returned to the grassroots.

The whole idea seems specious and anti-free-market to me: if the government could legally enact Medicare for all, and tax all of us to pay for it, why is mandatory insurance not legal?

The arguments against the idea are specious.

Why not just wait until college?" There is a certain specious appeal about the idea of deferring the teaching of evolution to college, which can be felt even by those who accept evolution.

Their boosters see them as marvels of concision, but one person's idea of streamlining is another's idea of a specious and ethically doubtful simplicity.

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