specious
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specious englanniksi
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
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(RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes)
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(quote-web) a vocal minority of movie fans have come up with specious reasons to criticize it.
Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
(RQ:John Gay Fables)
{{quote-book|en|year=1829|author=William Phelan; Mortimer O'Sullivan|chapter=Ireland: A digest taken before Select Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland, 1824—25|title=The Christian Review and Clerical Magazine|volume=III|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA472|page=472
Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
{{quote-book|en|year=1760|author=William Warburton|title=The Lord Bishop of Gloucester's Sermon Preached Before the Right Honourable the House of Lords, January 30, 1760|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zp1bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA19|page=19
{{quote-text|en|year=1776|author=Edward Gibbon|title=The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|section=Vol I, ch 1-pt i
{{quote-text|en|year=1788|author=Alexander Hamilton|title=Federalist (Dawson)/58|Federalist No. 59
Beautiful, pleasing to look at.
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(quote-book)|passage=''Coelorinchus'' is the most specious genus of macrourids with 122 species at the time of writing and more yet to be described.