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specious in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
gilded meretricious specious
- plausible but false
"a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
specious spurious
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