specious, adj.
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
<adj.all>
gilded glossy meretricious specious
sample sentences
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility""meretricious praise"
"a meretricious argument"
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lexical pointers
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similar to
plausible but false
<adj.all>
specious spurious
sample sentences
"a specious claim""spurious inferences"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to