0 seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false:
specious allegations/promises
1 seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false:
a specious distinction
It confers on the various perspectives on empathy only a specious nominal unity.
Ethnic groups were variously typecast by schemes of physical, psychological, and cultural profiling, as complex as they were specious.
As most of the preceding articles note, appeal to the best interests of the nonconsenting donor child is morally specious at best.
However, the explanations suggested by conscious experience can easily be shown to be specious in examples such as the ones cited above.
Accepting the complete-life perspective does not, of course, do more than dispose of the more specious case against seniority privileges.
But if they contrast in no language, the distinction is probably specious.
Suppose that these three notes are played so that only two occur in a single specious present.
His cynicism was in part a reaction to his parents' specious cultural standards.