specious

näennäinen

pätevältä vaikuttava Seemingly reasoned well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.

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I have frequently amused myself both in public and private companies, with silently remarking, the specious errors of those who speak without reflecting.

But a third cause of the delusion is, that the Church of Rome has become more specious and deceitful than before the Reformation.

And could any thing be more ſpecious, or more equal, than that fair diſtribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?