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(satellite adjective) plausible but false; "a specious claim" |
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(satellite adjective) plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert |
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Synonyms: spurious |
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(satellite adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" |
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Synonyms: gilded, meretricious |
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