How to Use specious in a Sentence

specious

adjective

• He justified his actions with specious reasoning.
• The claim that the merger will create more jobs is even more specious.
  — Gigi Sohn, WIRED, 10 May 2018
• Or get hold of a completely specious list of the best this-or-that.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Jones’ complaints about how the city treated him are specious.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
• But that hasn’t stopped people from making specious claims.
  — Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Those specious bits of news found a home on mailers sent to Cleveland voters.
  — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
• To most clubs and their fans, such internal conflict might seem specious.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 11 May 2016
• As ought to be well known by now, claims of mass voter fraud are specious always and everywhere.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 13 May 2021
• To argue there is no connection to the historic issue is specious and silly.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• Ah, yes, the rock star, the species (and often specious) petra stella, in the Latin.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Any complaint about my behavior, no matter how specious, could be a mark against my record.
  — Oliver Bateman, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017
• As is invariably the case with the work of deficit hawks, Manchin’s concerns are entirely specious.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• That’s a specious argument, in my view, because the two go together.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• Posobiec’s book warns children against the specious promises of lupine communists.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• The latter is what happened with a famous and specious claim about female fertility.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022
• He will likely be challenged about this specious assertion.
  — Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• So the idea that all of a sudden the introduction of slow downloads entirely cratered an industry is to me specious.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• Campaign rallies have been chock-full of specious claims and fan-fiction narratives.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2020
• But the second claim — that a party with a nonwhite base is doomed to low turnout in off-year elections — is looking mighty specious this morning.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Dec. 2017
• That charge is specious, and the U.S. should refute it vigorously.
  — Michael Doran and, WSJ, 17 June 2018
• Will this picture seek to nudge us in the direction of feel-good bipartisan healing — a goal that seems elusive at best and specious at worst?
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2020
• Commonwealth tried to claim that its minor expense charges were insurance, but that was just silly to the point of being wholly specious.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• This entire commission is based on the specious and false notion that there was widespread voter fraud last November.
  — Eugene Scott, CNN, 1 July 2017
• Trump based his volcanic campaign on the specious notion that this imbalance costs American jobs.
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
• Not a press release about a new chef or restaurant comes across my desk these days that does not use the locavore or farm-to-table boast, even when largely specious.
  — John Mariani, Esquire, 24 May 2011
• Lincoln’s opponents dismissed it as specious and naive.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2020
• What if his Administration were to flood the courts with specious lawsuits, attempting to slow or stop the vote count in various states?
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• Targeting fake profiles and pornography also seems a bit specious.
  — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 30 May 2018
• Both arguments are specious, based on a clumsy syllogism.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
• All that said, even specious arguments can have some basis in fact, and there are ways that ESG needs to mature.
  — Aron Cramer, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024