Word: speciously
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...alone) and daily reports on evening newscasts of children murdering each other, have severely undermined each other, have severely undermined the NRA's whining about individual rights. The rights of Americans to own weapons that can fire hundreds of bullets for minutes--for apparently no legitimate purpose--seems specious when waves of terror leave dozens dead in Texas or on a Long Island train...
Davis, a former council member, has labeled Gabay's interpretation a "specious challenge, self serving and designed to delay the officer elections...
...both of the arguments advanced by Campbell are specious. It should not be too difficult to identify the rightful possessor of a free newspaper: the publishers, because they produced it, are the legal owners...
...council's plan may be severely flawed, but administrators' arguments against it are equally specious. President Rudenstine claims that having exams before break would be an academically inferior situation. Professors, he claims, would be more hesitant to assign challenging assignments and papers without a longer reading period...
...indelible part of our culture, and as an act still in many ways symbolic--it makes no sense to expect to eliminate it by legislating it out of existence. While outlawing cigarettes in our workplaces and restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just a brief escape into adulthood, but, more significantly, an act of rebellion...