adj.

1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
2. Deceptively attractive.

[Middle English, attractive, from Latin speciōsus, from speciēs, appearance.]

speciously spe'cious·ly adv.
speciosity spe'ci·os'i·ty (-shē-ŏs'ĭ-tē) or spe'cious·ness (-shəs-nĭs) n.

adjective

1. Containing fundamental errors in reasoning: fallacious, false, illogical, invalid, sophistic, spurious, unsound. See correct/incorrect, true/false.
2. Devoid of truth: counterfactual, false, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful, wrong. See true/false.

adj

Definition: misleading
Antonyms: real, true, valid

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IN BRIEF: Looking fair or right but being false.

They realized that the sales pitch was specious when the company suddenly went out of business.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - besnærende, bestikkende

Nederlands (Dutch)
misleidend, verblindend

Français (French)
adj. - spécieux, trompeur

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Schein-, blendend

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αληθοφανής, απατηλός, παραπειστικός

Italiano (Italian)
specioso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - enganador, ilusório

Русский (Russian)
благовидный, показной, кажущийся, лицемерный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - especioso, engañoso, aparente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - skenbar, bestickande, skenfager

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
徒有其表的, 华而不实的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 徒有其表的, 華而不實的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 허울만 좋은, 겉만 번드르르한, 그럴 듯한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 見かけ倒しの, 猫をかぶった, 知覚できる, 経験しうる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) (حجه) معقوله ظاهريا ( لكنها باطله)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נכון לכאורה, צודק למראית עין, הוגן כביכול, מטעה, מזוייף‬

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