specious

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. plausible but false
- a specious claim
- spurious inferences
• Syn:
spurious
• Similar to:
false
• Derivationally related forms:
spuriousness (for: spurious), speciousness
2. based on pretense;
deceptively pleasing
- the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
- meretricious praise
- a meretricious argument
• Syn:
gilded, meretricious
• Similar to:
insincere
• Derivationally related forms:
speciousness, meretriciousness (for: meretricious)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  gilded, meretricious, spurious