specious English

Meaning specious meaning

What does specious mean?

specious

— adjective (= spurious) plausible but false a specious claim spurious inferences

— adjective (= gilded, meretricious) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility meretricious praise a meretricious argument

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spurious

plausible

meretricious

illusive

gilded

tricky

treacherous

sophistic

showy

seeming

paradoxical

ostensible

likely

illusory

hollow

fraudulent

fallacious

fair-faced

fair

facile

elusory

elusive

delusive

deceptive

deceitful

colourable

colorable

catchy

apparent