Crossword-Solution: SPECIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Specious | a. | Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy. |
| Specious | a. | Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SPECIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Superficially plausible | 1 answer |
| Sounding true but not | 1 answer |
| Plausible but wrong | 1 answer |
| Plausible but untrue | 1 answer |
| Plausible but false | 1 answer |
| Like a skilled scam artist's reasoning, often | 1 answer |
| Deceptively convincing | 1 answer |
| Apparently right, but not really so. | 1 answer |
| colourable | 8 answers |
| ben trovato | 8 answers |
| on the cards | 10 answers |
| DECEPTIVELY PLEASING | 11 answers |
| *To be expected | 11 answers |
| plausible | 15 answers |
| Illusive | 26 answers |
| Ostensible | 29 answers |
| Fallacious | 34 answers |
| Bogus | 50 answers |
| erroneous | 53 answers |
| phoney | 54 answers |
| Unfounded | 55 answers |
| Young-ster | 68 answers |
| Misleading | 81 answers |
| Deceptive | 82 answers |
| False ___ | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPECIOUS (5)
Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone; and as a God Extoll him equal to the highest in Heav’n: Nor fail’d they to express how much they prais’d, That for the general safety he despis’d His own: for neither do the Spirits damn’d Loose all thir vertue; least bad men should boast Thir specious deeds on earth, which glory excites, Or close ambition varnisht o’re with zeal.
The Cat replied, “Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless;” and he made a meal of him.
Why, then,—while so much of the soil around him was bestrewn with the virgin forest leaves,—why should Colonel Pyncheon prefer a site that had already been accurst? But the Puritan soldier and magistrate was not a man to be turned aside from his well-considered scheme, either by dread of the wizard’s ghost, or by flimsy sentimentalities of any kind, however specious.
Woodhouse must not, under the specious pretence of a morning drive, and an hour or two spent at Donwell, be tempted away to his misery.
Yet think not your Charlotte was so lost as to voluntarily rush into a life of infamy; no, my dear mother, deceived by the specious appearance of my betrayer, and every suspicion lulled asleep by the most solemn promises of marriage, I thought not those promises would so easily be forgotten.
Quotes with SPECIOUS (3)
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand…
His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, “cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization.” It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civ…
The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateur conductors. .A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, 'Suicide is selfishness.' Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one’s audience with one’s mental fiber, to vent anger, or just …
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1953–2020).