specious

/spˈiːʃəs/

/ˈspiʃəs/

specious

plausible but false

synonyms : spurious

falsely giving a pleasing appearance

synonyms : gilded

Examples

1. -But that's not the Infowars kingpin's only specious legal argument.

2. An event can be located in the specious present, an interval of about three seconds in which we don't make temporal distinctions.

3. And he comes up with all sorts of metaphors for the specious present.

4. And he says the specious present is basically a very short duration.