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  1. specious:


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Detailed Synonyms for specious in English

specious:

specious adj

  1. specious
    – based on pretense; deceptively pleasing 1
    meretricious; specious; gilded
    – based on pretense; deceptively pleasing 1
    • meretricious adj
      • meretricious praise1
      • a meretricious argument1
    • specious adj
    • gilded adj
      • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility1
  2. specious
    – plausible but false 1
    spurious; specious
    – plausible but false 1

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Related Definitions for "specious":

  1. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing1
  2. plausible but false1
    • a specious claim1

Related Synonyms for specious