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单词 specious
释义
speciousspe‧cious /ˈspiːʃəs/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINspecious
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin speciosus ‘beautiful, easily believed’, from species; SPECIES
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • specious logic
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • All that is needed is a positive approach and an end to the specious fear of isolation.
  • Even so, the size-and-weight-of-head argument is a rather specious one.
  • In the history of ideas, it is always specious to divide matters into a before and an after.
  • In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopular neutrality.
  • So a dangerous tolerance of error and a specious attitude of humility towards truth has arisen.
  • The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.
  • There was a specious ease about everything, like the moment just before something was going to explode.
seeming to be true or correct, but actually false SYN  misleading:  a specious argument
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