[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

specious \spe"cious\, a. l. speciosusgood-looking, beautiful,
   specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. f.
   sp'ecoeux. see species.
   1. presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or
      look; showy.
      1913 webster

            some serpents specious and beautiful to the eye.
                                                  --bp.
                                                  richardson.
      1913 webster

            the rest, far greater part,
            will deem in outward rites and specious forms
            religion satisfied.                   --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct,
      but not so in reality; appearing well at first view;
      plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
      1913 webster

            misled for a moment by the specious names of
            religion, liberty, and property.      --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            in consequence of their greater command of specious
            expression.                           --j. morley.
      1913 webster

   syn: plausible; showy; ostensible; colorable; feasible. see
        plausible.
        1913 webster -- spe"xiously, adv. --
        spe"ciousness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
species plausible spe"xiously spe"ciousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

specious
     adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious
            inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-
            ethel albert syn: spurious
     2: plausible but false; "a specious claim"
     3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
        perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
        praise"; "a meretricious argument" syn: gilded, meretricious
see also:
spurious gilded meretricious 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

85 moby thesaurus words for "specious":
   barmecidal, barmecide, airy, alleged, apparent, apparently sound,
   apparitional, autistic, avowed, beguiling, casuistic, chimeric,
   claimed, colorable, colored, conceivable, deceptive, delusional,
   delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disingenuous,
   dreamlike, dreamy, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic,
   gilded, hollow, hypocritical, idle, illogical, illusional,
   illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in name only,
   inaccurate, incorrect, insincere, jesuitic, likely, meretricious,
   misleading, nugatory, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle,
   phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, philosophistic, plausible,
   possible, presumable, presumed, pretended, pretexted, professed,
   purported, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, so-called,
   sophistic, sophistical, spectral, spurious, superficial, supposed,
   supposititious, tinsel, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsound,
   unsubstantial, untrue, vain, visionary, wrong

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Political Satire | News Parody | Fair and Balanced
...The Specious Report ~ America's Oldest News Magazine ~ Spreading ... All original content on The Specious Report © Dale McFarland  .   ... ..
http://www.thespeciousreport.com/index.html, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 6:57 pm

Political Satire | News Parody | Fair and Balanced
...The Specious Report ~ America's Oldest News Magazine ~ Spreading ... All original content on The Specious Report © Dale McFarland  .   ... ..
http://www.thespeciousreport.com/, score=97, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:37 pm

Division 2004 - Election Satire & Humor Coverage
...The Rest >>. The Specious Report Archive:. Our own coverage of the ... ..
http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2004/division2004.html, score=81, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 4:26 pm

TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 17. The Origin of Specious. Harvey Blume.
...The Origin of Specious. And why reductionists are winning the Darwin ... Harvey Blume, "The Origin of Specious," The American Prospect vol. 13 ... ..
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/17/blume-h.html, score=52, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 3:48 pm

Critical Thinking vs Specious Arguments
...December 2001 Web resources: Critical thinking vs. Specious arguments ... Specious and fallacious arguments. A list of fallacious arguments ( ... ..
http://www.uia.org/dialogue/critical.htm, score=48, date indexed=January 20, 2006, 4:27 am

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http://www.softpal.co.jp/specious/, score=44, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 7:29 pm

Dictionary.com/specious
...specious. adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the ... specious. specious: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary. Source ... ..
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=specious, score=35, date indexed=December 15, 2005, 2:53 am

Reason magazine -- July 1997
...Origin of the Specious Why do neoconservatives doubt Darwin? By Ronald ... ..
http://www.reason.com/9707/fe.bailey.shtml, score=33, date indexed=January 21, 2006, 8:54 am

The price of coffins: specious arguments by eminent doctors against the dangers ...
...Specious arguments were used to detract from the real issue, which ... The price of coffins: specious arguments by eminent doctors against ... ..
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621, score=33, date indexed=January 21, 2006, 1:38 am

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