Search Result:specious
KK Pronunciation
〔 ˋspiʃәs 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˊspiːʃәs 〕
Overview of adj specious
The adj specious has 2 senses
- specious, spurious -- (plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences")
- gilded, meretricious, specious -- (based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument")