English adjective: specious | |||
| 1. | specious plausible but false | ||
| Samples | A specious claim. Spurious inferences. | ||
| Synonyms | spurious | ||
| Similar | false | ||
| Antonyms | true | ||
| 2. | specious based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | ||
| Samples | The gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility. Meretricious praise. A meretricious argument. | ||
| Synonyms | gilded, meretricious | ||
| Similar | insincere | ||
| Antonyms | sincere | ||