Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different selfish reason: to hear himself talk. But is that all he really wants? His off-color language and an attempted pat on the shoulder have convinced Carol by Act Two that she was the victim of sexual manipulation. John, to her mind, has demanded her submission to his specious, inflated academic authority...
...staff errs in making a specious states' rights argument. While it is right to call for the legalization of marijuana for medical uses, it is far from appropriate to blame the executive branch of the federal government for essentially doing its job--upholding...
Indeed, the hysteria that Kirtley, Kelleher and Sozinho are inciting about the adminstration's violation of the freedom of the press is largely specious. Kirtley was not Ad Boarded for writing a column. On the contrary, he was Ad Boarded for making a prank phone call. In other words, the Ad Board does not only consider prank phone calls made for publication a violation of University rules but all such phone calls. If I had been sitting around making prank phone calls for fun and someone reported me, I too would be punished although I never had any intent...
...play basketball on Sunday mornings in a Greenwich Village playground. The highlight of the year was not some spectacular hook shot--there weren't any spectacular hook shots--but the awards banquet at which we'd hand out honors like "The John Foster Dulles Award for the Most Specious Out-of-Bounds Argument" and a special trophy for "Most Improved Jewish Player...
...Professor Dominguez has been twice quoted as saying that he is not impressed by students banging on windows; we say in return that we are similarly not impressed with specious claims of 'progress," the students wrote...