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What does specious mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word specious? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
  2. Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
  3. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
  4. (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.
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Many proponents of personal accounts have used specious arguments about the potential for superior rates of return.
Kindly keep your preposterous, specious opinions out of conversations that don't concern you!
Criticism should be founded on a writer's life and work, not just on previous criticism or specious theories.
Yet there are dinosaurs who take a dim view of such a plan, their highly specious argument revolving around the nebulous concept of loyalty.
This argument was presumably specious since the integrated system has since been jettisoned in favor of subcontracting.
These arguments are specious, but they are based on rosy assumptions or bad analogies.

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