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    specious - Dictionary definition and meaning for word specious

    Definition
    (adj) plausible but false
    Synonyms : spurious
    Example Sentence
    • a specious claim
    • spurious inferences
    Definition
    (adj) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
    Synonyms : gilded , meretricious
    Example Sentence
    • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
    • meretricious praise
    • a meretricious argument
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for specious

It sounds like 'suspicious'.

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Like the movie "Species" about an alien woman who looks human but has other plans

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Seemingly true/plausible/attractive, but when SPECulated closely, it was found to be fallaCIOUS.

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spec+ious => ppl with specs normally seem reasonable but end up being incorrect. * (no offense, just to remember)

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He made a SPEECH to US which was false

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JANta ke pisonse TICKET khared kar trip gaya

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SPEC-to see/to seem specious--sthg that seems to be like this but actually it isnt

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she peed sauce,I saw it.Looks true but it can't be

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specious = "speech"ious, means it is true only in speech or words but not in reality

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people having spects can clearly see but actually not(with out spects)

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Looks like spAcious but actually not, then it is spEcious

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