Word: speciousness
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...demand that the daily press, with its more general focus, cannot or does not satisfy. But undefined and undefinable, the news letter has yet to earn recognition in its chosen field. For years, newsletter reporters were barred from membership in Washington's National Press Club, on the specious grounds that their publications carried no advertising; newsletter reporters still are denied accreditation to the Senate and House press galleries. Whether newslettering is legitimate journalism, or promotion, or something else again, is a question that journalism itself appears unable to decide...
Reviewing the production, and indirectly the novel, the Daily Mail found it merely boring, and the London Times suggested that Lady Chatterley is "basically Elinor Glyn scattered with a lot of specious philosophizing...
...total assurance: reading it. a dedicated Communist might easily convince himself that history was undeniably on his side, that all his sacrifices were worthwhile, all his masters humane and wise, all his enemies villainous. It was all there, from moral fervor to shrewd, selfish appeals, and there was a specious coherence to it all. But some might take a closer look at the fine print...
When asked whether De Gaulle's strength had increased as a result of the recent crisis in Algeria, Mr. Acheson remarked, "that is like asking whether you are lucky when losing a leg not to lose your life. That kind of argument has always seemed to me specious...
...second irrelevancy is a specious legal argument. Dean Watson said Monday that "lawyers advise the University against getting involved in cases still pending in court." If the lawyers spoke as lawyers, they are wrong: there would be nothing illegal in Harvard's permitting Seeger to discuss his case while it is under appeal. Mark DcWolfe Howe, professor of Law, has called this argument "absurd." If the lawyers spoke as advisers on a non-legal matter, they are foolish, and the implications of their advice are frightening. Is Harvard to bar a convicted, but unsentenced, man from speaking here about...