SPECIOUS in a Sentence

Learn SPECIOUS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SPECIOUS, such as:

1. His voice was still soft and filled with specious humility.
2. To claim that, because houses and birds both have wings, both can fly, is extremely specious reasoning.
3. He then, by a specious argument, prevented her from going, and so had the chance for which he had waited.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPECIOUS
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specious
 a.  seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading intentionally
Classic Sentence:
1  His voice was still soft and filled with specious humility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  He then, by a specious argument, prevented her from going, and so had the chance for which he had waited.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
Example Sentence:
1  To claim that, because houses and birds both have wings, both can fly, is extremely specious reasoning.