Sentence examples for specious justifications from inspiring English sources

The police use such specious justifications as "furtive movements" or an alleged "bulge" in someone's pocket as the basis for stopping people.

Historian Norman Davies found the new Polish frontiers, from the Polish interests point of view, entirely advantageous, but realized at the cost of enormous suffering and specious justifications.

Just because you don't have a specious justification for something doesn't mean you can't do it.

The Executive Branch: President Obama, like many of his predecessors, has routinely disregarded the Constitution when it has suited his purposes, operating largely above the law and behind a veil of secrecy, executive orders and specious legal justifications.

Instead, it should focus first and foremost on those at the highest levels of the United States government who authorized the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture, as well as the senior political appointees — including many lawyers — who did their superiors' bidding by providing specious legal justification for the use of abusive interrogation methods, thereby enabling criminal conduct.

The specious religious justification is so frightfully wrong that it tends to render mere mortals speechless, and now, it seems to have momentarily confused the highly popular Pope Francis.

To give one example, public justification seeks some distance from people's actual reasons, in search of genuine justification rather than specious rationalization.

You could smell the "gotcha" in the air as the reporter wrote how I "openly admitted" making the comparison, and cited such luminaries as James O'Keefe, whose undercover-pimp activism halted ACORN's voter registration drives, to refute my claims that the justifications for the recent spate of voting laws were specious.

In her book, she argues that the main justification for censorship schemes, "harm to minors," is a specious one, used by adults to impose their own narrow standards on society.

And all specious.

It's completely specious.