specious• The hastyflight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophicalnotions only a specious air of universality.• In the Middle Eastcrisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopularneutrality.• So a dangeroustolerance of error and a speciousattitude of humility towards truth has arisen.• There was a speciousease 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.• speciouslogic• 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.
Originspecious
(1300-1400)Latinspeciosus“beautiful, easily believed”, from species; → SPECIES