Associations to the word «Specious»
Noun
Adjective
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
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.