Definition of Specious

Adjective

  • based on pretense
    deceptively pleasing
    "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
    "meretricious praise"
    "a meretricious argument"
  • plausible but false
    "a specious claim"
    "spurious inferences"
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Unscramble specious

184 unscramble word found using the letters specious.
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