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specious

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specious in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
    "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
    gilded  meretricious  specious 
  2. plausible but false
    "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
    specious  spurious 
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