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specious
What does specious mean?
specious (adjective): plausible but false.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use specious in a sentence?
- That's specious reasoning. (Tatoeba sentence #10309048 by shekitten, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce specious?
/ˈspiʃəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “specious” mean?
worthy of imitation
Not quite: that's what exemplary means.
plausible but false
Right! That's what “specious” means.
quick and energetic
Not quite: that's what brisk means.
fraught with danger
Not quite: that's what perilous means.
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