Specious In A Sentence

• What specious argument!
• There seemed to be something in this specious advice.
• This is a precept specious enough, but not always practicable.
• He was the essence of sympathetic tact as far as his specious exterior went.
• Such specious pleading will not deceive any intelligent, honest person.
• This man could see to the bottom, through every specious argument.
• The devil is seeking, in the most specious manner, to displace the cross.
• My story, however, invented by Raffles, was sufficiently specious in itself.

• There is no cruelty which they do not practice upon each other under this specious pretext.
• It was all only an imperfectly specious substitute for life, only a coarse parody on life.
• Charlemagne yielded to his specious argument, and Roland and all his followers died.
• Well, to be brief, the joy as fit occasions rise, I grudge you not, of specious lies.
• To claim the authorship of this work was too harmless and specious a stratagem not to be readily suggested.
• But we cannot prove that it was so, nor satisfy those whom probability and a specious hypothesis will not content.
• At present he dissipates his life in a specious idleness, which neither improves himself nor his friends.
• Lucien thought them very kind for a time, and later found out the real reason for their specious amiability.
• Its new diction is specious and clever, but it is a satanic cleverness when its history is weighed in the balance.
• Presently from these more specious changes, his eye condescended to the many curious objects with which the floor was littered.
• His voice was a persuasive instrument, upon which he played with a somewhat specious but effective art.
• Civilized nations will no longer cover the blood of the slain, under the specious idea of defending their rights and liberties.
• These harpies, knowing what ails the individual, begin sending her their specious and insinuating literature.
• Analogy, the specious precursor of reason, would suggest the personality of the powers which awed and cheered man.
• It would make general and genuine appreciation of good music, and put an end to the specious pretences of which we spoke just now.
• To Newman both alike were of the devil; theological liberalism especially was only specious infidelity.
• This was as specious as his other moralizing, and he never imagined that he had fallen into a trap set by Copley.
• But this reason, however specious and imposing at first view, will lose much of its apparent force upon a closer examination.
• The basest; for nothing can be baser than manly strength, in the specious form of protection, injuring an unhappy woman.
• The brilliant many-sided man who once held the fortunes of the empire in his hand, the specious philosopher, the unequalled orator is forgotten.
• His argument was a masterpiece of clever, specious reasoning, well calculated to produce an effect upon uneducated or half-educated jurymen.
• Is it 'a contrivance of human wisdom,' or of human craft, to obtain money from a nation under specious pretences?
• He thought, like a poor ignorant fellow as he was, that this mild, specious person could never be one of the band.
• Having reached this conclusion, Lovell turned over in his mind two or three specious lies that might meet the exigency.
• He may even feel rather ashamed of himself for having been, as he thinks, taken in by specious promises, like the purchaser of a quack medicine.
• Having reached this conclusion, Lovell turned over in his mind two or three specious lies that might meet the exigency.
• The Opposition perceived that, under a cover of many fair words and specious phrases, there was very little substantial concession.
• The suggestion is specious at least, as the object of their antipathy is the Duke d'Aiguillon.
• An interval of motley feelings, of specious artifice and contemptible imposture, had elapsed since my meeting with the stranger at Wilmington.
• The devil chose to act his part in a serpent, because it is a specious creature, has a spotted, dappled skin, and then, went erect.
• A smooth exterior, a show of virtue, and a specious tale, are, a thousand times, exhibited in human intercourse by craft and subtlety.
• There was a specious justice in them veneering their cruelty; I am glad to say that I gave utterance to none of them.

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