Associations to the word «Specious»

Wiktionary

SPECIOUS, adjective. Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
SPECIOUS, adjective. Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
SPECIOUS, adjective. (obsolete) Beautiful, pleasing to look at.

Dictionary definition

SPECIOUS, adjective. Plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences".
SPECIOUS, adjective. Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky