Sentence examples for would be specious from inspiring English sources

Clearly, it would be specious to equate what colonizing Europeans did to the indigenous peoples of the Americas with what Wal-Mart's done to the United States.

He concluded that even in the presence of equal concentrations of metabolites, the effects vary among species because of differing sensitivities and hence extrapolations among species would be specious [ 98].

Wouldn't it be specious reasoning to conclude that there is some platonic ideal one must aspire to?

He says that if the House took up the bill and passed it while the Senate is punting, it would be a "specious act".

Much of this will be specious.

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.

To call it an extension cord would be a serious case of specious logic.

If Mrs. Clinton wanted to respond to the very recent complaint that she did not react properly to her husband's bad behavior prior to their arrival at 1600 Pennsylvania, and it is not clear that this complaint deserves a response, honestly explaining how she survived in those dark moments would be a powerful corrective of the specious claims of aloofness or arrogance weighing down her campaign.

The whole menace-of-prolixity contention "is the kind of specious argument that I would be using if I were making the case for the typewriter," said Andy Rooney, Mr. Safer's colleague on "60 Minutes," who began using WordPerfect a decade ago.

Second, it would be wrong simply to assume that the specious presents of different sense modalities are of exactly the same extent, and likewise for different subjects.

And any suggestion that it's possible to ratchet down volatility without sacrificing performance would be an act of modern portfolio blasphemy, or a specious marketing ploy.