Sentence examples for specious in from inspiring English sources

Mr. Huebner clearly risks sounding specious in linking such searing imagery to the New York literary-narcotic demimonde.

4.01pm GMT Ben Gummer, a Conservative, says the arguments used by the Lib Dems have been "specious in the extreme".

page]( To put it plainly, the Poets & Writers rankings are bad: they are methodologically specious in the extreme and quite misleading.

Comparisons between Eddy Merckx and Vos have been made for a while now, and they are not specious in the slightest.

Cameron's emphasis on curbing freedom of movement rights for new countries joining the EU is seen as particularly specious in Brussels for the simple reason that there is no prospect of any new members for the foreseeable future.

The generalization argument here is a variant of the fallacy of composition and it is logically specious in its presumed implication.

There is an acrid, pessimistic, despairing wit in Rampart sometimes, especially when Brown reveals his specious fluency in legal casework, easily coming up with a legal precedent that justifies the latest brutality – which he may or may not have made up.

There is the irresistible Fergus Wolff, who has trumped Roland to the only tenured job in the English department of Prince Albert College by developing a specious expertise in literary theory.

And it's hard to get away with a specious argument in her presence.

To the Editor: "How the U.S. Got Broadband Right" is yet another specious argument in favor of the existing loosely regulated monopoly system of Internet service.

Here is an idea, hospitality industry: stop trying to conjure specious "character" in your venue using flea market tat (most of which is no less mass-produced than the crockery in Ikea), and please concentrate instead on a) the quality of what is on the plate, and b) said plate being fit for purpose.