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61delusive — I adjective artful, beguiling, bogus, chimerical, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusory, dreamy, elusive, fallacious, fallax, false, falsus, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, feigned, fraudulent, guileful,… …
62illogical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unreasoned, fallacious, specious, implausible, absurd. See error, absurdity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. irrational, unreasonable, absurd, specious, fallacious, sophistical, inconsequent,… …
63plausible — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. credible, reasonable, believable; specious, colored; justifiable, defensible. See possibility. Ant., implausible. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. believable, probable, credible, supposable; see likely 1 …
64spurious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. false, counterfeit, sham, specious; bastard, illegitimate. See deception, error, falsehood. Ant., accurate, true. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. counterfeit, apocryphal, deceptive; see artificial 1 ,… …
65untrue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. false, misleading, specious, lying, hollow, deceptive, delusive, untrustworthy, deceitful, sham, fake, spurious, meretricious, incorrect, prevaricating, dissembling,… …
66cavil — n. 1. Frivolous objection, captious criticism, unwarranted censure, carping, censoriousness, wilful censure, objection for objection s sake. 2. Specious objection, specious controversion, specious disputation, sophistry, special pleading …
67Speciocities — Speciosity Spe ci*os i*ty, n.; pl. {Speciocities}. [Cf. LL. {speciositas}.] 1. The quality or state of being specious; speciousness. [1913 Webster] Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance. Carlyle. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
68Speciosity — Spe ci*os i*ty, n.; pl. {Speciocities}. [Cf. LL. {speciositas}.] 1. The quality or state of being specious; speciousness. [1913 Webster] Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance. Carlyle. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is… …
69tinsel — I. noun Etymology: Middle English tyneseyle cloth interwoven with metallic thread, probably from Anglo French tencelé, past participle of tenceler, estenceler to sparkle more at stencil Date: 1538 1. threads, strips, or sheets of metal, paper, or …
70Hope Diamond — French Blue redirects here. For the color, see French blue (color). Hope Diamond Hope Diamond in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Weight 45.52[1][2] …
