- Adjective
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1. plausible but false;
- "specious reasoning"
- "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
- synonym: spurious
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2. plausible but false;
- "a specious claim"
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3. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;
- "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
- "meretricious praise"
- "a meretricious argument"
- synonym: gilded,meretricious
- 1. He fences his doctrines with the specious plea that statesmen mustlive as the world lives.
- 他用似是而非的遁词为他的教义作辩护,说政治家必须象世人那样活着。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. Such talk is actually specious and groundless.
- 这些话实际上毫无根据,似是而非的。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》


