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What does speciously mean?

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You're sternly and speciously warned against vandalistically breaking the law.
And in the mean time we may observe, that such a way of Arguing may, it seems, be speciously accommodated to differing Hypotheses.
The government speciously said it withheld to protect the privacy of the advice given by the.
The Sherpa-roadies were ecstatic and told jokes throughout the evening, while each of us nodded speciously, not really listening.
How was it possible she should behave so speciously as she did all the time the lady staid with us!
In fact, upon the neutral fact of evolution a theory of pessimism may be built up as speciously as a theory of optimism.

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