specious

  • (s) plausible but false
    • a specious claim
    • spurious inferences
    spurious,
  • (s) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
    • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
    • meretricious praise
    • a meretricious argument
    gilded, meretricious,

Synonyms

spurious gilded meretricious

Words of close approximity

specious argument speciously speciousness