How to Use specious in a Sentence

specious

adjective

• He justified his actions with specious reasoning.
• Or get hold of a completely specious list of the best this-or-that.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Ah, yes, the rock star, the species (and often specious) petra stella, in the Latin.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The claim that the merger will create more jobs is even more specious.
  — Gigi Sohn, WIRED, 10 May 2018
• There’s a specious equivocation we were sold for 50 to 60 years of the drug war.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 24 Mar. 2017
• Jones’ complaints about how the city treated him are specious.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 June 2018
• Those specious bits of news found a home on mailers sent to Cleveland voters.
  — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
• But that hasn’t stopped people from making specious claims.
  — Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• To most clubs and their fans, such internal conflict might seem specious.
  — Sam Borden, New York Times, 11 May 2016
• 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
• That charge is specious, and the U.S. should refute it vigorously.
  — Michael Doran and, WSJ, 17 June 2018
• As this team continues to receive specious praise as the best offense in the history of the league, how many players had career years from the 3-point line?
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
• In April, cops in Georgia pulled over a busload of mostly Black college athletes for the most specious of reasons.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
• That’s a specious argument, in my view, because the two go together.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Any complaint about my behavior, no matter how specious, could be a mark against my record.
  — Oliver Bateman, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017
• Although your reason for avoiding it is the very essence of a specious denial, AA is not the only venue through which to confront your drinking.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• Not the least of Price’s achievement is to rescue Viking history from the grasp of white supremacists who claim a specious lineage with it.
  — The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2020
• His goal that day in June 2018: publicize the specious beliefs held by followers of the QAnon theory.
  — AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2020
• To argue there is no connection to the historic issue is specious and silly.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2019
• When asked, Biden agreed that the filibuster has a specious history attached to the Jim Crow era and segregation.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• 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
• The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational faultiness of specious claims to a post-racial America.
  — Time, 16 Jan. 2020
• In the ensuing months, Giuliani appears to have functioned as a conduit for specious claims that made their way to Trump and right-wing media outlets.
  — Author: Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe, Paul Sonne, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2016
• NFTs reflect a view of the world in which anything can be monetized, even if its value is entirely specious.
  — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Pearce said the defense claims that Smith’s office was not properly funded by the government were specious and lacking in any support in case law.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• It was quickly rejected on the specious grounds that the documents are exempted by the attorney client privilege and being attorney work product, when neither applies.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024