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Word | Specious |
plausible but false; specious reasoning; the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality- Ethel Albert / seeming to be good, correct, or logical without really being so / Presenting a pleasing appearance / based on pretense / seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally) / superficially plausible, but actually wrong. / falsely appearing to be fair, just, or right : appearing to be true but actually false, | |
Usage | ⇒ Dont misguide me by such specious argument ⇒ To claim that, because houses and birds both have wings, both can fly is extremely specious reasoning. ⇒ He justified his actions with specious reasoning. ⇒ a specious argument |
Synonyms | false, ostensible, deceptive, plausible, apparent, fallacious, spurious, illogical, illusive, meretricious, unsound, untrue, delusive, illusory, presumable, sophistic, sophistical, wrong, casuistic, gilded, |
Antonyms | true, valid, frank, real, sincere, aboveboard, analytic, candid, clarifying, coherent, credible, direct, elucidative, explanatory, forthright, foursquare, free-spoken, honest, illuminating, logical, |
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