Specious Synonyms and Antonyms

spēshəs
Devoid of truth
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. spurious
  2. counterfactual
  3. false
  4. truthless
  5. untrue
  6. untruthful
  7. wrong
Antonyms:
  1. true
  2. valid
  3. real

Words Related to Specious

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Specious Sentence Examples

  • This argument is rather specious than sound.

  • William of Orange was not deceived by the specious temporizing of the king.

  • But Mary had, under a specious pretext, recommenced to a slight extent the evil practice, and Elizabeth had gone a little further in the same direction.

  • 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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