speciously

This was the question he had always had to answer speciously before.

"No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough.

It was still speciously attractive; but now that the moment had arrived for writing the story its flaws became manifest.

He was talking nonsense, either seriously or speciously.

"You asked me to make sure you were awake, Francesca," he said speciously.

And he would speciously blame his foreign foes for whatever pain his people continued to endure.

And thus his jealous soul speciously argued to excuse the separation of father and child.

Then comes the prospect of another policy that highlights their inadequacies and speciously justifies siphoning off public funds for private schools.

Instead, he wrote again, speciously insisting that blame for the controversy rested with "Publicola."

Yes, I warrant; speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a white spot about her.

And it was particularly jarring during the testosterone-fueled Super Bowl, an event that to some minds is linked, however speciously, to male violence against women.

"Our animals," Holger said, not altogether speciously.

"A shame," he remarked speciously.

The carnival is correctly perceived as a black event; however, much of the media has subtly and speciously presented the riots as being black too.

Some Democrats are now arguing speciously that Republicans are entitled to any appointee of their choice, and that his name should go through.

Congressional grant restrictions are justified, it's speciously argued, because taxpayers have a right to say what kind of so-called art should be supported with their tax dollars.

So Mel's photographic work in Biafra 20 years earlier is tied, a bit speciously, to his rage and jealousy over Carmen's indifference.

Mr. Valenti argues, speciously, that with more complex ratings, countless permutations and combinations would arise, creating confusion for the viewer.

Thrift disguised as Reason speciously suggests than an excess of Fluid Foundation on one's face, unlike a poisoned sausage, will cause no harm.

He knew how little the real Marie resembled the speciously amiable, altogether attractive Marie who faced a smiling world when she went pleasuring.

As he took yet another deep breath of that speciously sweet cinnamon smell, it seemed to him that he had never wanted anything so badly in his whole life.

Even so, one needn't necessarily be a liberal-arts graduate to regard as distinctly and speciously utilitarian the idea that higher education is, above all, a route to economic advancement.

The harsh, clipped regime of the speciously refined Verna is almost diametrically opposed to the warmth and moral integrity of Marion's leadership in the first series.

Everything seemed speciously normal, as if Gilly, Zeth and Pog Hill were already a long time in the past.

"In addition, of course," he expanded speciously, "I will accept the risk of embarrassment -or perhaps I should say humiliation-if my concerns are shown to be false."