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speciously
Variant of specious
adjective
- seeming to be good, sound, correct, logical, etc. without really being so; plausible but not genuine: specious logic
- Obsolete pleasing to the sight
Related Forms:
- speciously adverb
- speciousness noun or speciosity
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