speciousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speciousness
Noun
  • The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The fallacy of screen time holds that measuring a ubiquitous phenomenon provides information that allows for control of that phenomenon—that keeping records of a chronic state will give rise to certain habits of self-healing.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As various ancient sources recount, after Achilles is killed by Paris, the Greeks resort to deception.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Real war introduces deception, saturation attacks and human failures.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The right side is nearly always wrong and blatantly lying, while the left side supposedly stumbles into falsehood every once in a while.
    Tim Graham, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The only way forward is through compromise and cooperation — not falsehoods and finger-pointing.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With the excitement and delusion of Humbert Humbert imposing a purple-prose narrative on his pedophilic assumptions, Hank speaks of his former student like a James Dean figure — beautiful, brooding and quietly intelligent.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In Pisces, the taskmaster teaches us how to dream without delusion, and how to love without losing ourselves in the process.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Speciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speciousness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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