Sentence examples for specious on from inspiring English sources

But he did it: his statement was specious on three distinct levels.

Yemen, of course, has long been the war that official Washington talks about in hushed whispers, seeing as our intervention in that nation has been specious on our best days.

It is specious to focus on the latter condition while ignoring the former.

Tupac also gave specious autobiography on the fly.

He found another journalist to take up the brief, and the resulting piece amounted to a specious attack on the then-PM.

But to categorize him that way would be using the type of specious reasoning on which, according to his book, American military policy about gay personnel is based.

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: "I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.

I find that to be very specious argument on the surface, but it bears further analysis.

A White House fact sheet also cited Iran's material support for terrorism, role in the Syrian regime's atrocities, hostility toward Israel, threats to freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, "grievous" human-rights abuses, detention of American citizens "on specious charges," and cyberattacks on Israeli and U.S. allies in the Middle East.

Greene's abhorrence of linguistic meddling extends to the "grouches," "scolds" and "vigilantes" who complain that English is going to hell in a Hupmobile and insist on imposing specious rules and crotchets on a language that is doing quite nicely on its own, thank you.

Direct unity obtains when the qualities represented in one specious present are experienced as succeeding on from qualities in the immediately preceding specious present; indirect unity is the ancestral of direct unity, and obtains when qualities experienced in non-adjacent specious presents are connected by chains of direct phenomenal unity (2003: 100).