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Sending in our ground forces to “fight them on foreign soil so we won’t have to fight them on our own” is a specious argument.

The performance-enhancing benefits of marijuana are, if not specious, at least very much up for debate.

Ads promoting fraudulent sanitizers and specious coronavirus remedies or linking to fly-by-night websites selling overpriced masks still clog up the digital ad supply chain, companies that monitor advertising creative for programmatic ad firms say.

That struck the ACLU—and the judge in the case, Alvin Hellerstein—as a specious argument.

So specious, in fact, that they are increasingly seen to be rationales to cover outdated forms of prejudice.

Set aside for a moment that that logic is specious in the first place.

In a TiVo age, who watches political ads anyway, no matter how specious or bombastic?

While the public gasped at this specious statement, the defense took over for cross examination.

It was notorious that she claimed the sovereignty of the isthmus on specious, nay, on solid, grounds.

These proverbs remind us of Bacon: "Specious words confound virtue."

Mr. Grote's speech on this occasion contained many specious arguments, and it appears to have had a great effect upon the house.

There is no cruelty which they do not practice upon each other under this specious pretext.

The mediocrities allow themselves to be dissuaded by the specious obstacles—the great ones never.