( sa pi ish ) = specious
The word "specious" is pronounced SP-EE-shus.
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Specious means "misleading in appearance, or something that may seem plausible at first but isn't true or accurate." Following is a use of "specious" in sentence: "The thief had a specious argument, and soon people realized he was the guilty party."
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Doubtful, specious, skeptical
Specious is an adjective.
write about the specious of ersinial fotida?
There are 23 specious of crocodile (including alligator and gharial).
A specious argument is one that is deliberately created to deceive the unknowing by presenting "facts" that seem plausible but which are primarily wrong. The 2K scare was based on specious arguments made by people who hopped on the bandwagon to make a buck via books, lectures, etc. In retrospect, their arguments, while sounding plausible, were based on erroneous ideas, and in some cases, were deliberately deceptive. Because of its narrow definition, "specious" is a word we don't hear often, and when we do, it usually modifies the word "argument".
"Specious" means "seemingly well-reasoned, plausible and true, but actually untrue".
The Russians claim that the American story of sending a man to moon is specious.
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