specious
adjective
apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible.
speciousness
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a word derived from
specious.
Example Sentences
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It declined to dig into the research and warn other courts across the country about the speciousness of the warrior gene theory.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2021
It was the original 1932 Scarface that laid out the speciousness of the genre.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2017
The brilliant Ruby Tandoh recently examined the speciousness of some of the faux-scientific thinking underpinning various of these works.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2016
I was among those who spent years protesting the speciousness of this claim, until Foster finally was forced to drop it and concede that John Ford wrote the poem.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2011
It is written in a tone of assumed friendly remonstrance, and lays out with speciousness the apparent grounds for calling trust in Jehovah absurdity.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
