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
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 system of the theorist, disencumbered from all regard to the real nature of things, easily assumed an air of speciousness.
From A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations by Sir James Mackintosh
