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Example sentences for: specious
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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.
However, he makes some specious claims.
And the flip side of Salter's argument in this morning's essay-all pop culture is garbage-seems to me just so easy and specious.
They're central to Malick's vision of the story, however, and not specious.
hāls, a neck, and its derivative hawsehole; but we ought not to be misled by such a specious bit of guesswork.