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Speciously

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Adverb

1. speciously

in a specious manner

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Speciously

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adjective
1. 
apparently correct or true, but actually wrong or false
2. 
deceptively attractive in appearance

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Speciously

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adjective
1. 
seeming to be good, sound, correct, logical, etc. without really being so; plausible but not genuine
specious logic
2.  Obsolete
pleasing to the sight

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Speciously

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adj.
1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
2. Deceptively appealing: "It is easy enough to give the old idea [of programmatic music] a specious air of modernity" (Aaron Copland).

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