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Meaning of word specious from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : Plausible but false.

Example : A specious claim.
Spurious inferences.

Synonyms : spurious

Meaning : Based on pretense. Deceptively pleasing.

Example : The gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility.
Meretricious praise.
A meretricious argument.

Synonyms : gilded, glossy, meretricious

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