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
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
Like one of those smart middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of is disguised by its topicality.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2011
The idea was neither new nor just; but its speciousness will probably continue to commend it to many enthusiastic minds, whensoever and in whatsoever shape it is revived.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
