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  Specious \Spe"cious\, a. [L. speciosusgood-looking, beautiful,
     specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. F.
     sp['e]coeux. See Species.]
     1. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or
        look; showy.
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              Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye.
                                                    --Bp.
                                                    Richardson.
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              The rest, far greater part,
              Will deem in outward rites and specious forms
              Religion satisfied.                   --Milton.
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     2. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct,
        but not so in reality; appearing well at first view;
        plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
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              Misled for a moment by the specious names of
              religion, liberty, and property.      --Macaulay.
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              In consequence of their greater command of specious
              expression.                           --J. Morley.
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     Syn: Plausible; showy; ostensible; colorable; feasible. See
          Plausible.
          [1913 Webster] -- Spe"xious*ly, adv. --
          Spe"cious*ness, n.
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  Specious \Spe"cious\, a. [L. speciosusgood-looking, beautiful,
     specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. F.
     sp['e]coeux. See Species.]
     1. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or
        look; showy.
  
              Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye.
                                                    --Bp.
                                                    Richardson.
  
              The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward
              rites and specious forms Religion satisfied.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     2. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct,
        but not so in reality; appearing well at first view;
        plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
  
              Misled for a moment by the specious names of
              religion, liberty, and property.      --Macaulay.
  
              In consequence of their greater command of specious
              expression.                           --J. Morley.
  
     Syn: Plausible; showy; ostensible; colorable; feasible. See
          Plausible. -- Spe"xious*ly, adv. --
          Spe"cious*ness, n.

  specious
       adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious
              inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-
              Ethel Albert [syn: spurious]
       2: plausible but false; "a specious claim"
       3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
          perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
          praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious]

  specious
     Αγγλικά a.
     απατηλός, παραπειστικός

  specious
     a.
     1 Seemingly reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
     2 Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments;
  deceitful.
     a.
     (alt form of en speciose t=rich in species).

  specious
     a.
     1 Seemingly reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
     2 Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments;
  deceitful.
     a.
     (alt form of en speciose t=rich in species).

  specious
     a.
     1 Seemingly reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
     2 Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments;
  deceitful.
     a.
     (alt form of en speciose t=rich in species).

  specious
     a.
     1 Seemingly reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
     2 Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments;
  deceitful.
     a.
     (alt form of en speciose t=rich in species).

  specious
     Englanti a.
     1 harhaanjohtava
     2 näennäinen
     3 pätevältä vaikuttaa

  Specious /spˈiːʃəs/
  خادع

  specious //ˈspiːʃəs// 
  1. благовиден
  seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious
  2. показен
  with appearance intended to generate a favorable response

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/ 
  klamný

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/ 
  falešný

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/ 
  zdánlivý

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/ 
  zdánlivě správný

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/
  trügerisch, scheinbar, bestechend 

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/ 
   [formal] scheinbar richtig, irreführend 

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/ 
  1. सत्याभासी
        "Don't misguide me by such specious argument."

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/
  lijepog izgleda, nalik na istinu, prividan, varljiv, vjerojatan, zgodan

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/
  megtévesztô

  specious //ˈspiːʃəs// 
  まことしやかな, 似て非なる
  seemingly well-reasoned, but fallacious

  specious /spˈiːʃəs/
  1. sahte, aldatıcı
  2. dış görünüş itibariyle aldatıcı
  3. samimi olmayan. speciously  dış görünüşüyle aldatarak. speciousness  dış görünüşün aldatıcı olması.

  
/ˈspiʃəs/

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "specious":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, alleged, apparent, apparently sound,
     apparitional, autistic, avowed, beguiling, casuistic, chimeric,
     claimed, colorable, colored, conceivable, deceptive, delusional,
     delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disingenuous,
     dreamlike, dreamy, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic,
     gilded, hollow, hypocritical, idle, illogical, illusional,
     illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in name only,
     inaccurate, incorrect, insincere, jesuitic, likely, meretricious,
     misleading, nugatory, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle,
     phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, philosophistic, plausible,
     possible, presumable, presumed, pretended, pretexted, professed,
     purported, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, so-called,
     sophistic, sophistical, spectral, spurious, superficial, supposed,
     supposititious, tinsel, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsound,
     unsubstantial, untrue, vain, visionary, wrong
  
  

  adj.似是而非的

     a. 徒有其表的,似是而非的,外表美观的