"reason" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ugliness and triviality are equally specious reasons for changing such a snappy name.
- Especially for such a specious reason.
- She really didn't want to: that heavy gravity had been a killer, but she wouldn't desert him for such a specious reason.
- Mr. Clyman is willing to say it is about "what becomes of a person who discovers his capacity to commit a grievous act for a specious reason," and he will call it "a darkly comic, disturbing, politically incorrect, psychological mystery."
- They can ignore their true motives, they can justify their crimes with specious reasons.
- The usual way, said Alcibiades; where Socrates is, no one else has any chance with the fair; and now how readily has he invented a specious reason for attracting Agathon to himself.
- Or, if recent history is any indicator, he could play well no matter what and still become a scapegoat, shipped out of town for vague and specious reasons.
- So spare me your specious reasons for becoming a part of the hatred that curses us.
- Blacks turned out to vote in record numbers in Florida this year, but huge numbers were systematically turned away for one specious reason after another.
- He had no doubt that Kel was waiting to get Nightwind's advice about how the gryphon should handle the boy, and not for any specious reason about drying feathers.
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