specious

Word family

spe·cious /ˈspiːʃəs/ adjectiveadj formal

FALSEseeming to be true or correct, but actually false 似是而非的，貌似正确的 SYN misleading

a specious argument

貌似有理的论据

Examples from the Corpus

specious• The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.• In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopular neutrality.• So a dangerous tolerance of error and a specious attitude of humility towards truth has arisen.• There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.• All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.• specious logic• Even so, the size-and-weight-of-head argument is a rather specious one.• In the history of ideas, it is always specious to divide matters into a before and an after.

Origin specious

(1300-1400) Latin speciosus “beautiful, easily believed”, from species; → SPECIES

spe·cious adjectiveadj

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 23870 COCA: 23653

specious

Not definite or based on fact: apparently, supposed, alleged...

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