Specious
21specious — /ˈspiʃəs / (say speeshuhs) adjective 1. apparently good or right but without real merit; superficially pleasing: specious arguments. 2. pleasing to the eye, but deceptive. 3. Obsolete pleasing to the eye; fair. {Middle English, from Latin… …
22specious — adj. 1 superficially plausible but actually wrong (a specious argument). 2 misleadingly attractive in appearance. Derivatives: speciosity n. speciously adv. speciousness n. Etymology: ME, = beautiful, f. L speciosus (as SPECIES) …
23specious argument — index non sequitur Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
24specious reasoning — index non sequitur, sophistry Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
25Specious present — The specious present is the time duration wherein one s perceptions are considered to be in the present.James, W. (1893). [http://books.google.com/books?id=JLcAAAAAMAAJ The principles of psychology] . New York: H. Holt and Company. Page 609.]… …
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27specious — Synonyms and related words: Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, alleged, apparent, apparently sound, apparitional, autistic, avowed, beguiling, casuistic, chimeric, claimed, colorable, colored, conceivable, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive,… …
28specious — spe·cious || spɪËʃəs adj. having the appearance of truth while in actuality being false; deceptively appealing, superficially attractive …
29specious — a. 1. Obvious, showy, manifest, open. 2. Fair (apparently, but not really), plausible, colorable, ostensible, showy, feasible …
30specious — adj plausible, possible, conceivable, believable, likely, probable, tenable; seeming, apparent, appearing, ostensible, presumable, Archaic. semblable; supposed, presumed, reputed, inferred; professed, claimed, purported, avowed, alleged, so… …
