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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.
The editorial endorses a tobacco settlement as a way to reduce both smoking and "specious" lawsuits.
This specious doctrine could hamstring American national security.
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.
The Second Edition of the Random House Unabridged follows a similar practice, and I find it speculative, spurious, and specious except for the documentation of relatively recent coinages.