specious 音标拼音: [sp'iʃəs]
a . 徒有其表的,似是而非的,外表美观的
徒有其表的,似是而非的,外表美观的
specious adj 1 :
plausible but false ; "
a specious claim "; "
spurious inferences " [
synonym : {
specious }, {
spurious }]
2 :
based on pretense ;
deceptively pleasing ; "
the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility "; "
meretricious praise "; "
a meretricious argument " [
synonym : {
gilded },
{
meretricious }, {
specious }]
Specious \
Spe "
cious \,
a . [
L .
speciosusgood -
looking ,
beautiful ,
specious ,
fr .
species look ,
show ,
appearance ;
cf .
F .
sp ['
e ]
coeux .
See {
Species }.]
1 .
Presenting a pleasing appearance ;
pleasing in form or look ;
showy .
[
1913 Webster ]
Some [
serpents ]
specious and beautiful to the eye .
--
Bp .
Richardson .
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1913 Webster ]
The rest ,
far greater part ,
Will deem in outward rites and specious forms Religion satisfied . --
Milton .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
Apparently right ;
superficially fair ,
just ,
or correct ,
but not so in reality ;
appearing well at first view ;
plausible ;
as ,
specious reasoning ;
a specious argument .
[
1913 Webster ]
Misled for a moment by the specious names of religion ,
liberty ,
and property . --
Macaulay .
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In consequence of their greater command of specious expression . --
J .
Morley .
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Syn :
Plausible ;
showy ;
ostensible ;
colorable ;
feasible .
See {
Plausible }.
[
1913 Webster ] -- {
Spe "
xious *
ly },
adv . --
{
Spe "
cious *
ness },
n .
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1913 Webster ]
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "
specious ":
Barmecidal ,
Barmecide ,
airy ,
alleged ,
apparent ,
apparently sound ,
apparitional ,
autistic ,
avowed ,
beguiling ,
casuistic ,
chimeric ,
claimed ,
colorable ,
colored ,
conceivable ,
deceptive ,
delusional ,
delusionary ,
delusive ,
delusory ,
dereistic ,
disingenuous ,
dreamlike ,
dreamy ,
empty ,
erroneous ,
fallacious ,
false ,
fantastic ,
gilded ,
hollow ,
hypocritical ,
idle ,
illogical ,
illusional ,
illusionary ,
illusive ,
illusory ,
imaginary ,
in name only ,
inaccurate ,
incorrect ,
insincere ,
jesuitic ,
likely ,
meretricious ,
misleading ,
nugatory ,
ostensible ,
overrefined ,
oversubtle ,
phantasmagoric ,
phantasmal ,
phantom ,
philosophistic ,
plausible ,
possible ,
presumable ,
presumed ,
pretended ,
pretexted ,
professed ,
purported ,
seeming ,
self -
deceptive ,
self -
deluding ,
so -
called ,
sophistic ,
sophistical ,
spectral ,
spurious ,
superficial ,
supposed ,
supposititious ,
tinsel ,
unactual ,
unfounded ,
unreal ,
unsound ,
unsubstantial ,
untrue ,
vain ,
visionary ,
wrong
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