My esteemed colleague is using the specious argument that his client could not control himself because he was under the influence of a twinkie; clearly he wants us to coddle murderers.
here is a sentence with coddle
The Russians claim that the American story of sending a man to moon is specious.
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."
Specious is used to describe something that sounds true or plausible but is not: The Area 51 theorists use some very specious arguments to validate their assumptions.
The flirty teen told the officer a specious story about her car accident, because she did not want to tell the truth about how she'd run off the road into the ditch while texting on her cell phone.
The ungracious child had been coddled by well-meaning parents.
That is the correct spelling of the verb "coddle" (to pamper or indulge).
Specious is an adjective.
The flirty teen told the officer a specious story about her car accident, because she did not want to tell the truth about how she'd run off the road into the ditch while texting on her cell phone.
( sa pi ish ) = specious
write about the specious of ersinial fotida?
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".