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specious meaning and definition

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SPECIOUS adjective

Definition of specious (adjective)

  1. plausible but false
    • "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
    • synonyms: spurious
  2. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
    • "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
    • synonyms: gilded, meretricious
Source: Princeton University Wordnet

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