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.