"Specious" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Specious" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers

Specious

"Specious" Meaning

Adjective: falsely attractive or persuasive; deceitfully attractive.

Example: "Her specious arguments failed to convince anyone of her innocence."

Synonyms: spurious, dubious, fallacious, deceitful, false.

"Specious" Examples

1. Officially sanctioned by the government, the new museum was initially seen as specious with a high chance of losses if it didn't generate enough public interest.

Wording issue: overlooking the true reasons behind its establishment.

2. Lena suspected that her boss's assertation about her misleading recent sale data may be specious because she had all the records and during her personal check-up, her data was accurate.

Lexical function: verb to describe the truth of information or an assertion.

3. The movie with a specious plot twist made viewers argue vigorously as they tried to figure what exactly was the hidden messsage portrayed in the thriller.

Wording style: Using of Williams metaphors for describing complex ideas.

4. The trail of evidence found in the broken seal showed a testament that Tom's story was not entirely specious so the police did not do further interrogation.

Other example: But the scientific truth-

factually true as opposed to specious.

"Specious" Similar Words

Specifier

A specifier is a word or phrase that modifies or describes a noun or noun phrase in a sentence, indicating its characteristics, properties, or qualities. Example: "The old specifier car" - Here, "old" is the specifier that describes the noun "car". Specifiers can be adjectives, phrases, or even clauses, and they help to add more detail and precision to a sentence.

Specifiers

Specifies

Designates exactly what is referred to precisely and accurately, leaving no doubt or confusion about its meaning.

Specify

To identify something clearly and precisely in a specific or particular way. Example: "Can you specify what you mean by 'soon'?" OR (to indicate a particular detail): "She specified the exact date and time of her arrival."

Specifying

Specimen

Specimens

Speciosity

Speciosity refers to the quality or tendency of something to be characteristically or excessively rhetorical or sugary, often in a way that is perceived as insincere, empty, or lacking substance.

Speciously

Speciousness

Speck

Specked

Specking

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