Sample Sentences forspecious (editor-reviewed)
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It's just another specious-sounding miracle diet.specious = seemingly good, but without merit
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Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed. (source)
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And although she believed that the iyi-uwa which had been dug up was genuine, she could not ignore the fact that some really evil children sometimes misled people into digging up a specious one. (source)specious = seemingly good, but false
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And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army — row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar. (source)specious = seemingly good, but without merit
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This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. (source)
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Specious allegations get us nowhere. (source)Specious = meritless
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It's going to be all right, Lewis had promised, although she did not understand how he could make so specious a statement. (source)specious = seemingly good, but not true
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This was the question he had always had to answer speciously before. (source)speciously = falsely (seemingly good, but without merit)
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Impose the death penalty and let the law take its course in spite of the specious call for sympathy! (source)specious = insincere, but seemingly good
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Instead, he wrote again, speciously insisting that blame for the controversy rested with "Publicola."† (source)
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could ...give you a thousand specious reasons... (source)specious = seemingly good, but without merit
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No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. (source)speciously = seemingly to indicate something, but not really proving it
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He then, by a specious argument, prevented her from going, and so had the chance for which he had waited. (source)specious = insincere, but seemingly good
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And thus his jealous soul speciously argued to excuse the separation of father and child.† (source)
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In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air. (source)specious = seemingly good, but without merit
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but speciously for Master Fenton (source)
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