Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being specious; plausible appearance; fair external show: as, the speciousness of an argument.
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- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
specious . - noun countable, rare The result or product of being
specious .
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- noun an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
Etymologies
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Examples
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The passage, as it proceeds, is not without an air of speciousness, which is yet, as it appears to us, only derived from a perversion of the assumption against which it is directed.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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The utter speciousness of your comparison in the above is embarrassing.
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Is the speciousness of your argument clear enough yet?
In the ballpark Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Obama made a “weather here/weather there” comparison to specifically note the speciousness, and then went on to address the issue of trends of which certain types of weather patters are an exemplar.
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. 2010
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The utter speciousness of your comparison in the above is embarrassing.
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The speciousness began right from its opening lines: “Recent reports on experiments with mice have given wide publicity to a theory that cigarette smoking is in some way linked with lung cancer in human beings.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The speciousness began right from its opening lines: “Recent reports on experiments with mice have given wide publicity to a theory that cigarette smoking is in some way linked with lung cancer in human beings.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The speciousness began right from its opening lines: “Recent reports on experiments with mice have given wide publicity to a theory that cigarette smoking is in some way linked with lung cancer in human beings.”
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Henry Sidgwick's obsessively persistent speciousness, distortions and misrepresentations in the face of rational, objective evidence mark him as a person who desires the Jews eternally to be subservient to host nations.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The transparency of the speciousness of your points reveals that you don't have a clue about what the other side is fighting for.
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