specious
adjective/ˈspiːʃəs/
/ˈspiːʃəs/
(formal)- seeming right or true but actually wrong or false synonym misleading
- a specious argument
Oxford Collocations DictionarySpecious is used with these nouns:- argument
- reasoning
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘beautiful’): from Latin speciosus ‘fair’, from species ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’.Want to learn more?
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