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Another word for specious

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specious

modif.

plausible, credible, colorable, beguiling, deceptive, misleading, ostensible, meretricious, sophistical, casuistic, probable, presumable, presumptive, likely, apparent, apparently right, seemingly just, hypocritical, fallacious, unsound.

Antonyms valid, unlikely, incredible.

specious applies to that which is superficially reasonable, valid, etc. but is actually not so, and it connotes intention to deceive a specious excuse; plausible applies to that which at first glance appears to be true, reasonable, valid, etc. but which may or may not be so, although there is no connotation of deliberate deception a plausible argument; credible is used of that which is believable because it is supported by evidence, sound logic, etc. a credible account

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Containing fundamental errors in reasoning:
fallacious, false, illogical, invalid, sophistic, spurious, unsound. See correct, true
Devoid of truth:
counterfactual, false, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful, wrong. See true

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This argument is rather specious than sound.
William of Orange was not deceived by the specious temporizing of the king.
It was for her sake, he said, that the Greeks and Barbarians fought, deluding themselves with an image of truth, for the real being was then present with the First God.3 By such specious allegories and Grecian fables Simon deceived many, while at the same time he astounded them by his magic. A description is given of how he made a familiar spirit for himself by conjuring the soul out of a boy and keeping his image in his bedroom, and many instances of his feats of magic are given.
In 1850 his power of specious argument won back to him his Chicago constituents who had violently attacked him for not opposing the Fugitive Slave Law.
The rush of the Mahommedan flood sent terror all over Europe, but the little opposition it encountered south of the Pyrenees is to be easily explained, and the victory, though genuine, was more specious than substantial.

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