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Example sentences for: specious

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The question is, of course, specious: the book is available now, for all to see, and if one does not need or want the more replete version, the “abridged” style of Neologisms may well suffice.
But Glazer's own logic leaves him with nothing to offer--except the admittedly specious comforts of multiculturalism.
The editorial endorses a tobacco settlement as a way to reduce both smoking and "specious" lawsuits.
Since I wrote about this in the New Republic in 1990, more information has emerged about Buchanan's bizarre argument--a specious comparison of the gas chambers at Treblinka and an accident in which schoolchildren survived inhaling diesel exhaust fumes in an underground tunnel.
It is the first citation in the OED Supplement , Volume 4 (1986), which defines the word as a “TV program lasting several hours, especially to solicit contributions,” coined by analogy from marathon . What had apparently happened was that a false analysis had divided the Olympic event into two specious morphemes, as if mar(a) meant `running' and -(a)thon meant `long' as a suffix.